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“I work for a time when women with women, women with men, men with men, all share the work of a world that does not barter bread or self for obedience, nor beauty, nor love.”

“And why are Black women supposed to absorb that male rage in silence? Why isn’t that male rage turned upon those forces which seek to limit his fulfillment, namely capitalism?”

“and that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and it does not have to be called marriage, nor god, nor an afterlife.”

pp.32-33. passage about herself & toni speaking through their interpreters is very moving. the idea of only getting each other’s words secondhand but still finding them enrapturing and full of feeling is so beautiful.

“as honeysuckle is sweet, so is this flower salt.”