Cheryl Clarke quotes
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“So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.”
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“For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.”
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“The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.”
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“Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny...”
-- Cheryl ClarkeSource : "Lesbianism: an act of resistance". Book by Cheryl Clarke, 1981.
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Source : Abdullah Yusuf Ali (2004). “The Meaning of the Holy Qu'ran”, Amana Pubns
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Source : "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.
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Source : "Aaron Sorkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.
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“At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'”
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