The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

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In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

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When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

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Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

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I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

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If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

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