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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.
• Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…
• Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
• Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
• Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
• ‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then…
• I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…
• For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be…
• Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our…
• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within…
• There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley…
• 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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