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    “Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.” ― Audre Lorde
    “For Black women as well as Black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others — for their use and to our detriment.” – Audre Lorde
    "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back." -- Sojourner Truth
    “How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?” ― Audre Lorde
    "It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals" --Angela Davis
    “The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.” ― Michelle Alexander
    "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring in a folding chair." --Shirley Chisholm
    “A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives — our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings — all fuse to create a politic born of necessity.” ― Cherríe L. Moraga
    "I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy." --Angela Davis
    “The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us, and which knows only the oppressors' tactics, the oppressors' relationships.” ― Audre Lorde
    "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." --Alice Walker
    “The real power, as you and I well know, is collective. I can’t afford to be afraid of you, nor you of me. If it takes head-on collisions, let’s do it: this polite timidity is killing us.” ― Cherríe L. Moraga
    “In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.” – Audre Lorde
    "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of people who were oppressing them." --Assata Shakur
    “Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.” ― Audre Lorde
    "Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'" --Angela Davis
    “For Black women as well as Black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others — for their use and to our detriment.” ― Audre Lorde
    "Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work." --Angela Davis