Britt

“This society gives points for pregnancy and for birthing, but after that, we isolate the mother and the baby and expect them to function the best way they can. It is very anti-family, anti-woman, anti-person!”
― Pearl Cleage, Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons, & Love Affairs

“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. I”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“there is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

“I think that a black poet can do one of two things for his people: 1. Reflect the beauty of their black life; whole, broken and mending. 2. Lead them in a righteous direction by showing them the path and what lies ahead in liberation and victory. If you call yourself a black poet and you ain’t doin’ that, you ain’t bein’ truthful and you ain’t bein’ fair and in general, you ain’t doin’ nothin’ for yr people/yr self/the struggle/the nation/the community. In short, you ain’t doin’ shit.”
― Pearl Cleage, Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons, & Love Affairs