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6261 Nigerian Quotes

I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.

Angry Anger Change History
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Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Interest Type Worried Exactly
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There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
Forgivable Easily Some Make
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Culture does not make people. People make culture.
Culture People Make Not
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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

Problem Gender Weight Individual
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Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.

Cage Small Inside Hard
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First we need to calm down, breathe, and get over ourselves.
Over First Calm Breathe
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Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person.

Person Love Built Respect
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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Dignity Break Matter Empower
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This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Love String Significance Miracle
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I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.

Deserve Chosen Longer Want
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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Race Never Exist Choice
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A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.

Pick Around Come Age
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Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.

Teach Criticize Problem Have
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My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.

Own Better Gender Definition
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We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Teach Close Cover Feel
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Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not “if only.” Not “as long as.” I matter equally. Full stop.

Matter Equally Stop Premise
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Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Around Often Power Felt
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She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.
Head Felt First Feel
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The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina.

Cooking Come Knowledge Not
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Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever.

Teach Idea Role Gender
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We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

Often Each Answer Question
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I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.
Mistake Often Obvious Else
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I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.

Lesson Unlearn Trying Vulnerable
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A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.

World Start Raise Differently
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Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Power Tell Story Ability
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Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.
True Exist Equality Because
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But by far the worst thing we do to males—by making them feel they have to be hard—is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

Ego Fragile Harder Feel
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You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

Flunk Exam School Life
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Until you prevail with God, you cannot prevail with men; your victory has to be spiritual first, before it is physical.

Prevail God Victory First
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The challenge may not go away when you pray, and when it doesn't go away, it simply means God believes that He has trained you enough to face it and win.

Win Face Enough Train
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Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.

Born Being Earthly Divinity
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Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.
Success World Aspire Around
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Lord. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial:

Daughter Thine Count Lord
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There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.

Wrong Poor Being Everything
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What you see with the eyes of faith is more real than what you see with your optical eyes.

Faith Eye See Real
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Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.

Rebellion Produce Relationship Revelation
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To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you!

Great Born Seed Become
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God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

Failure Success Birth Gave
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The goal of the Christian is not to become like Jesus; because as He is, so are we in this world.

Goal Christian Become World
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As a child of God, you must realize that you are on the winning side of prophecy; until you win it is not over!

Child Realize Side Win
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Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!

Insult Name King Boldness
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A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.

Teach Gain Church Much
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The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

Devil Stop Defeat Left
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Good things don't happen to the child of God; the child of God brings forth good things out of him.

Good Happen Child Bring
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If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

Faith Act Look Foolish
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God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!

Show Rather Send Situation
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There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.
Powerful Prayer People Such
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We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things!

Big Small Dream Leve
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Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name.

Name Devil Cast Overcame
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