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“The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating, Black feminist thought can offer African-American women a different view of ourselves and our worlds”

“The potential for greatness lives within us all.”

“Design the life you want to live.”

“Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

“I am the dream and the hope of the slave”

“I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.”