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“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Not is any one of you.”
from Udes of Anger

“What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman’s face? What woman’s terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?”
from Uses of Anger

“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”

“I was going to die, if not sooner then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had no protected me. Your silence will not protect you.”

Notes from a Trip to Russia, my beloved 😭