Florynce Kennedy
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The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
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Don't agonize, organize.
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When you want to get to the suites, start in the streets.
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I’m just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three
feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I’m crazy. Maybe you do
too, but I never stop to wonder why I’m not like other people. The mystery to me
is why more people aren’t like me.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other
jobs should be open to everybody.
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Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.
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Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless
as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner
or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.
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You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in
there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right
away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.
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Our parents had us so convinced we were precious that by the time I found out I
was nothing, it was already too late--I knew I was something.
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The whole concept of authority is what I think Women's Lib and Black liberation
is about. The reason I have a pathological attitude toward authority, is because
my parents did not establish their own authority, and did not require us to see
the government, our teachers, or any of these people as unquestionable
authority.
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
quotes.
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