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When Taoist softness conflicts with surviving systemic oppression

I love the idea of being like water but I'm a Black woman in corporate America and sometimes I need to be like steel or I get walked all over.

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Wisdom must honor both the ideal of yielding strength and the reality that some contexts require protective hardness.

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