Pamela

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Men understand direct communication. It's bitches who speak in code.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“It was black-black, so thick it drank two containers of relaxer at the salon, so full it took hours under the hooded dryer, and, when finally released from pink plastic rollers, sprang free and full, flowing down her back like a celebration. Her father called it a crown of glory.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“During Clinton’s tenure, Washington slashed funding for public housing by $17 billion (a reduction of 61 percent) and boosted corrections by $19 billion (an increase of 171 percent), “effectively making the construction of prisons the nation’s main housing program for the urban poor.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness