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Kiki Devan

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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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“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
― Arrigo Boito

tags: love

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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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“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
― Maya Angelou

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“Jimmy said, "We survived slavery.... You know how we survived?"

....We put surviving into our poems and into our songs. We put it into our folk tales. We danced surviving in Congo Square in New Orleans and put it in our bots when we cooked pinto beans. We wore surviving on our backs when we clothed ourselves in the colors of the rainbow. We were pulled down so low we could hardly lift our eyes, so we knew, if we anted to survive, we better lift our own spirits. So we laughed whenever we got the chance.”
― Maya Angelou, A Song Flung Up to Heaven

tags: black-history, slavery

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