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Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.


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[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.



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The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.



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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.



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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.



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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.



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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.



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