Quotes 3461 till 3480 of 25361.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
Revolutionary Suicide (2009) -
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) -
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
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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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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47 -
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
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Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
Notes from a Small Island -
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
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Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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