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“I mean, to me, all the explanation that's needed is in the Combahee River Collective statement, about what it is we stand for, and who we think we should be working with. But as I have explained, the reason we used the term "identity politics" is that we were asserting at a time when Black women had no voice. -Barbara Smith”
― Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective