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“I was sixteen. I didn’t know I was too young for him. I just thought his attention meant that I was worthy of love—could be loved—and that I wasn’t broken. When a lifeline comes, you don’t evaluate whether it’s the right one. You just grab for it and hold on.”
― Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

“Dominique guessed her own sexual preferences from puberty, wisely kept them to herself, unsure how her friends or family would react, not wanting to be a social outcast

she tried boys a couple of times

they enjoyed it

she endured it”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“…some men see silence as a net to toss their own words into.”
― Sara collins , The Confessions of Frannie Langton

“The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery. Virtue cannot prevail among the white people, by its destruction among the black people, who form a part of the whole community. It is evident that the white and black “must fall or flourish together.” In the light of this great truth, laws ought to be enacted, and institutions established — all distinctions, founded on complexion, ought to be repealed, repudiated, and forever abolished — and every right, privilege, and immunity, now enjoyed by the white man, ought to be as freely granted to the man of color.”
― Frederick Douglass