Black Trauma Quotes Quotes

“aside from slavery and its legacy, the most destructive force that happened to our community was the crack cocaine epidemic. I don’t believe that people really understand how much we lost to crack cocaine.”
― Nijiama Smalls, The Black Family's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds

“Pressuring, demanding, or encouraging forgiveness from Black survivors may be used as a method to avoid the realities of systemic racism and racial trauma and used as a substitution for enacting substantive social justice.”
― Amanda Ann Gregory, You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms