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“Speaking becomes both a way to engage in active self-transformation and a rite of passage where one moves from being object to being subject. Only as subjects can we speak. As objects, we remain voiceless—our beings defined and interpreted by others.”
― Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
― Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“Bravery wasn't an identity, so much as a choice.”
― Get a Life, Chloe Brown
― Get a Life, Chloe Brown
“I was taught that it was important to speak but to talk a talk that was in itself a silence.”
― Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
― Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“Sometimes,” he murmurs, “things need first to be ruined in order to then be remade.”
― Glint
― Glint
“There are times when so much talk or writing, so many ideas seem to stand in the way, to block the awareness that for the oppressed, the exploited, the dominated, domination is not just a subject for radical discourse, for books. It is about pain – the pain of hunger, the pain of over-work, the pain of degradation and dehumanization, the pain of loneliness, the pain of loss, the pain of isolation, the pain of exile... Even before the words, we remember the pain.”
― Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
― Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
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