Florynce Kennedy Quotes - Page 2

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• Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

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  Racism, People, Racist

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• The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

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  Country, Dollars, Disease

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• ... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

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  Teacher, Ambition, Brain

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Don't agonise, organise.

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  Teacher

  "Florynce Kennedy" by Margaret Busby, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2001.

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• Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

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  Marriage, Body, Married

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• Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

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  Trying, Arms, Helping

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• What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.

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  Airports, People, Doe

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• Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

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  Sibling, Office, Political

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• Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.

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  Peace, Coffee, Dirty

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

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  Thinking, Men, Fifty

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• Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

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  Depression, Moving, Daddy

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

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  People, Black, Minorities

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• Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

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  Real, Racism, Mind

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• There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.

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  Differences, Catching, Social Change

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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