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"We are more blind to what we have than to what we have not."

"I came away with revolutionary women in my head. But I feel very much now that we, Black Americans, exist alone in the mouth of the dragon. As I've always suspected, outside of rhetoric and proclamations of solidarity, there is no help, except ourselves."

"I spoke in English and she spoke in Russian, but I felt very strongly that our hearts spoke the same tongue."

“It is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes … the oppressors maintain their position and evade responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used by redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”

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