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“Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.”

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Book:Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

Source: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

“... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.”

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Author:Joycelyn Elders

“Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.”

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Book:Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

“Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.”