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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 altered at the same time as we alter the living conditions which are a result of those structures. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
“Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and se
... See moreSurvival is not a theory. In what way do I contribute to the subjugation of any part of those who I define as my people?
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
“We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.”
Hildegard Von Bingen
Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideas. The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves — along with the renewed courage to try the
... See moreCheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure. That means thinking about power differently. It means decoupling it from public prestige. It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means, above all, thinking about power as an attribute or even
... See moreMary Beard • Women & Power: A Manifesto
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
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What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.