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" Our visions begin with our desires. "

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" I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? "

" It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. "

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" Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. "

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

" When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. "

" Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. "

" 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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" The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. "

" But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it. "

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" Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. "

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