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I’m A Feminist So I Believe In Inhabiting Contradictions. I Believe In Making Contradictions Productive, Not In Having To Choose One Side Or The Other Side. As Opposed To Choosing Either Or, Choosing Both.

When Children Attend Schools That Place A Greater Value On Discipline And Security Than On Knowledge And Intellectual Development, They Are Attending Prep Schools For Prison.

The Food We Eat Masks So Much Cruelty. The Fact That We Can Sit Down And Eat A Piece Of Chicken Without Thinking About The Horrendous Conditions Under Which Chickens Are Industrially Bred In This Country Is A Sign Of The Dangers Of Capitalism, How Capitalism Has Colonized Our Minds. The Fact That We Look No Further Than The Commodity Itself, The Fact That We Refuse To Understand The Relationships That Underly The Commodities That We Use On A Daily Basis. And So Food Is Like That.

As A Black Woman, My Politics And Political Affiliation Are Bound Up With And Flow From Participation In My People's Struggle For Liberation, And With The Fight Of Oppressed People All Over The World Against American Imperialism.

The Early Feminist Argument That Violence Against Women Is Not Inherently A Private Matter, But Has Been Privatized By The Sexist Structures Of The State, The Economy, And The Family Has Had A Powerful Impact On Public Consciousness.