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Fenty later recalled Jay-Z saying, ‘There’s only two ways out. Out the door’ ”—if she signed the contract—“ ‘or through this window’ ” if she didn’t. Was that a threat? “It was very flattering.” She left through the door.
“People were then forced to consider whether many of the people who marched and carried signs were truly committed to Black lives and Black liberation or whether some, deprived of rites of passage, parties and proms, had simply developed a cabin fever racial consciousness, using the protests as congregational outlets, treating them like a social justice Coachella, a systemic racism Woodstock.”
― The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
― The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
“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
“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
“Which is another important thing to remember about friendship: You’re crazy if you think you get to make all the rules. What mattered was that we just kept showing up, in closeness, in commitment, in compromise, and even in fatigue. For me, it’s all about showing up.”
― The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
― The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
“When the people with power in a society see a portion of the populace as inferior and undeserving, their definition of “the public” becomes conditional. It’s often unconscious, but their perception of the Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they’ll tear apart the web that supports everyone, including them. Public goods, in other words, are only for the public we perceive to be good.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
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