Jasmine
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The election laws are designed to make it easy for the men in power. They make the rules and they enforce them. Anybody who plays their game has to play with their deck.
“Without a doubt, it was a book for when the birds had flown south, the wood was stacked by the fireplace, and the fields were white with snow; that is, for when one had no desire to venture out and one’s friends had no desire to venture in.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“don’t fret, we don’t die. they can’t kill the boy on your shirt again.”
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
“The fear of alienating other white women by refusing to challenge them or deny them support as a consequence for their racism is fundamentally damaging to any concept of feminism as a place that can create safety for all.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“Being black can get you killed.
Being gay can get you killed.
Being a black gay boy is a death wish.
And one day, if you’re lucky, your life and death will become some artist’s new “project.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
Being gay can get you killed.
Being a black gay boy is a death wish.
And one day, if you’re lucky, your life and death will become some artist’s new “project.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“My mother says you have to be grateful for the people you knew in childhood since the people you meet as an adult “is already ruined and no good, but you always ’member da innocence of peoples you knew as kids.”
― Black Girl Unlimited
― Black Girl Unlimited
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