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

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Your silence will not protect you.

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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

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It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

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I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

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But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

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Our visions begin with our desires.

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The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

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It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

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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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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

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I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.

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In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.

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If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

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