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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. it is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

-Anais Nin

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We Are All Engaged In The Task

Anais Nin

We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. it is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

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I was on a panel with light skinned blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how blacks are against gays and light skinned blacks and how intolerant blacks are of different groups. my position was that blacks were among the most humanistic, tolerant groups in the country and that across the street from my house in oakland was one inhabited by white gays.

In the united states the whites speak well of the blacks but think bad about them, whereas the blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. whites fear blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.

Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. but the truth is that every woman was not created by god to be skinny, with a flawless complexion and long flowing hair. not every woman was intended to juggle a career as well as all of the other duties of being a wife, mother, citizen, and daughter. single women should not be made to feel they are missing somenthing because they are not married. married women should not be made to feel they must have a career to be complete. we must have the freedom to be our individual selves.

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our suvs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.

Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. i wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? i think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. and since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one

I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.

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