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Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

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Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

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African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in that we see ourselves as a part of a life force; we are joined, for instance, to the air, to the earth. We are part of the whole-life process. We live in accordance with, in a kind of correspondence with the rest of the world as a whole. And therefore living becomes an experience, rather than a problem, no matter how bad or how painful it may be.

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Oppression is as American as apple pie.

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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect. . . . what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?. . . Death on the other hand, is the final silence. . . my silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.

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. . . my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

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. . . and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

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