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Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.

Source: Ain't I a Woman?, Introduction, 1981.
-- bell hooks, (Sep 25 1952-____), US educator, feminist theorist, poet; Born Gloria Watkins, she assumed her great-grandmother's name; became professor of English and Women's Studies at Oberlin.

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