"The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider."

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Source : Mamphela Ramphele, Johnnetta B. Cole (1999). “Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader”, p.181, Feminist Press at CUNY

Mamphela Ramphele

#Black Quotes #Female Quotes #Racist Quotes

“Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.”

Source : "Katherine Heigl's Dangerous Curves". Maxim Interview, www.tvguide.com. May 24, 2000.
“Things do happen and it's not you that changes, it's your life that changes”
“My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!”
“Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.”
“I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind altogether. She couldn't charm her way out from under Macon's watch. She would have to resort to older magic, stronger magic, the kind that had worked best on Macon from the time she first moved to Ravenwood. Plain old love.”
“I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.”
“I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.”
“A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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