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“When we turn from anger we turn from insight, saying we will accept only the designs already known, deadly and safely familiar.”

“To turn aside from the anger of Black women […] is merely another way of preserving racial blindness, the power of unaddressed privilege, unbreached, intact.”

—“The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. […] for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.” -“The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”