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White people have to give up their race privilege. Otherwise, Black people will have to continue fighting racism, which is really a distraction from the crucial healing and recovery work that we need to do among and inside ourselves.

— Patricia McFadden

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When you are born, you arrive on this planet with everything you need. It is inside you, you just have to explore it and bring it to the collective human project of freedom.

When we fight racism, we create spaces which are quickly occupied by white people, because they are still not giving up their privilege.

All nationalisms are expressions of ideology that brings large numbers of people together to resist oppressive, dominant, intrusive systems.

As radical women we all come from traditions that minimize the individual because we understand that capitalism focuses on the individual, greed and accumulation.

This crisis of black survival is directly linked to the predation of big international pharmaceutical and agribusiness corporations, which are mining the Black female body. We have become the latest and last capitalist frontier.

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