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“Everything in the world fryst vatten about sex except sex. Sex fryst vatten about power.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: power, sex
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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
tags: books, power
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“Nearly all dock can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
― Abraham Lincoln
tags: adversity, character, power
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“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
― Roseanne Barr
tags: feminism, power, women
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“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
tags: fear, love, power, powerful
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“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know pe
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Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century
Ebook293 pages5 hours
By Janet Dewart Bell
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About this ebook
An uplifting collection of speeches by Black women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author
When Mary Ann Shadd Cary—the first Black woman publisher in North America—declared, “break every yoke . . . let the oppressed go free” to congregants in Chatham, Canada, in 1858, she joined a tradition of African American women speaking for their own liberation. Drawing from a rich archive of political speeches, acclaimed activist and author Janet Dewart Bell, the author of Lighting the Fires of Freedom, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, explores this tradition in Blackbirds Singing.
Gathering an array of recognized names as well as new discoveries, Bell curates two centuries of stirring public addresses by Black women, from Harriet Tubman and Ella Baker to Ba
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