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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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It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that…
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and…
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A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have…
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Just because something is invisible doesn't mean it isn't there. At any given time, there are a host of invisibles floating among…
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The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
— Iris Chang
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
— Barbara Tuchman
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What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like…
— Virginia Woolf
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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand…
— Frederic Farrar
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The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest…
— Virginia Woolf
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How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television…
— Brewster Kahle
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Ninety-nine percent of requested deaths go unrecorded. It's a secret crime.
— Unknown Author
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