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From "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house":
"Without community there's no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretence that these differences do not exist."

From "Uses of the Erotic":
" Beyond the superficial, the considered phrase 'It feels right to me' acknowledges the strength of the Erotic into a true knowledge."
" to suppress any truth is to give it strength beyond endurance."

From "Poetry is not a Luxury":
"For women, then, poetry is not a Luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence."
"Women see ourselves diminished or softened by the falsely benign accusations of childishness, of non-universality, of changeability, of sensuality."

4.5*

I already know I'm going to give this book 5 ⭐️ the most sober piece of work I've read in a while

The white fathers told us: think,therefore I am.The Black mother within each of us the poet whispers in our dreams:I feel therefore can be free.Poetry coins the language to express
and charter this revolutionary demand. Our children cannot dream unless they live they cannot live unless they are nounshed,
and who else willteed them the real food without which their dreams will be no different from ours?