Jasmine
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What progressives who ignore history don’t understand is that just like racism is taught, so is distrust.
“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
“dear ghost i made i was raised with a healthy fear of the dark. i turned the light bright, but you just kept being born, kept coming for me, kept being so dark, i got sca … i was doing my job.”
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
“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
“i spent my life arguing how i mattered until it didn’t matter. who knew my haven would be my coffin? dead is the safest i’ve ever been. i’ve never been so alive.”
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
“We were free. We were unlimited. We didn’t yet know or understand race and class and all the intersections between them, so we were not yet black, at least not on the inside. Our psyches were still free from the troubles of the world.”
― Black Girl Unlimited
― Black Girl Unlimited
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