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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then…
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be…
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our…
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within…
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley…
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it…
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My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it,…
— Chris Rock
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Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.
— Dave Brubeck
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I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers
— Audre Lorde
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide…
— Adrienne Rich
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The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the…
— Tony Abbott
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In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them…
— Charlotte Mason
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Be at your mother’s feet and there is the Paradise.
— Ibn Majah
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My mother’s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She…
— Gregoire
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It takes a Mother’s Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.
— Helen Steiner Rice
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A wife’s prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else’s, even his mother’s. (Sorry, Mom.)
— Stormie Omartian
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We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract.…
— Anthony Doerr
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How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!
— Ezra Taft Benson
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