112 quotes found
“Dark-bright fire lit eyes”
“Your silence will not protect you.”
“Revolution is not a one time event.”
“I seek no favor untouched by blood.”
“Our visions begin with our desires.”
“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.”
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. ...”
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
“and when we speak we are afraidour words will not be heardnor welcomedbut when we are silentwe are still afraidSo it is better to speakrememberingwe were never meant to survive”
“For the masters tools will never dismantle the masters house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homo...”
“Laten we op zoek gaan naar 'vreugde' in plaats van naar eerlijk voedsel en schone lucht en een gezondere toekomst op een bewoonbare planeet! Alsof geluk volstaat om ons te beschermen tegen de gevol...”
“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
“When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even our different nightmares; when we turn them and look at them, its like looking at...”
“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What a...”
“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made...”
“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I kn...”
“...oppression is as American as apple pie... ”
“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”
“Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.”
“For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will ...”
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
“If you come as softlyAs wind within the treesYou may hear what I hearSee what sorrow sees.If you come as lightlyAs threading dewI will take you gladlyNor ask more of you.You may sit beside meSilent...”
“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to ones own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledg...”
“If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness...”
