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Everyone is familiar with the slogan "The personal is political" -- not only that what we experience on a personal level has profound political implications, but that our interior lives, our emotional lives are very much informed by ideology. We oftentimes do the work of the state in and through our interior lives. What we often assume belongs most intimately to ourselves and to our emotional life has been produced elsewhere and has been recruited to do the work of racism and repression.Angela Y. Davis
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This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".Angela Y. Davis
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The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.Angela Y. Davis
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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.Angela Y. Davis