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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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Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful…
— William Merritt Chase
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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…
— Audre Lorde
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Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.
— Amy Poehler
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Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that…
— Carl Sagan
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they…
— Carl Sagan
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I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
— Stella Young
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Not all relationships are meant to last forever. Some people come into our lives to teach us an important and sometimes painful…
— Rashida Rowe
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Not all scars show, not all illnesses can be seen, not all pain is obvious. Remember this before passing judgement on another.…
— Mercy Pheona
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I have learned that I am an adult already. And to grow with something is sometimes painful. And its great; I don't…
— Shakira
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Do you see that God's sometimes painful dealings with you are but an extension of his fatherhood? Do you understand that his…
— Charles Stanley
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