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Kiki Devan

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“Death of a beloved flattens and dulls everything. Mountains and skyscrapers and grand ideas are brought down to eye level or below. Great loves and large hates no longer cast such huge shadows or span so broad a distance. Connections do not adhere so closely, and important events lose some of their glow.”
― Maya Angelou, A Song Flung Up to Heaven

tags: death, grief, loss, mourning, sadness

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“I thought about black women and wondered how we got to be the way we were. In our country, white men were always in superior positions; after them came white women, then black men, then black women, who were historically on the bottom stratum.

How did it happen that we could nurse a nation of strangers, be maids to multitudes of people who scorned us, and still walk with some majesty and stand with a degree of pride?”
― Maya Angelou, A Song Flung Up to Heaven

tags: african-americans, black-women, blacks, pride, social-strata, strength

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“Death of a beloved flattens and dulls everything. Connections do not adhere so closely, and important events lose some of their glow.”
― Maya Angelou, A Song Flung Up to Heaven

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“He was so near the sacred and fearful grail of black manhood that any man of color who faced the threat of life with courage, and intellect, and wit, was his hero.”
― Maya Angelou, A Song Flung Up to Heaven

tags: african-americans, black-men, blacks, courage, danger, intellect, threats, wit

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“Black females, for the most part, know by the time they are ten years old that the world is not much concerned with the quality of their lives or even their lives at all. When politicians and salespeople start being kind to black women, seeking them out, offering them largesse, the women accept the soft voices, the simpering statements, the often idle promises, because those are likely to be the only flattering behavior directed to them that day. Behind the women's eyes, however, there is a wisdom that does not pretend to be unaware; nor does it permit gullibility.”
― Maya Angelou, A Song Flung Up to Heaven

tags: african-americans, black-women, blacks, flattery, kindness, politicians, salespeople, wisdom

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