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“Does black girl magic really mean,

"look at how black girl hasn't died yet"

and when she does die,
what does she become,
human?”
― Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

“Question yourself, yes, but don’t doubt yourself. There’s a difference.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

“She did not understand that for the women of her lineage, a marriage meant a murder in one form or the other.”
― Cherie Jones, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

“Become so drunk on life and love that it blinds you to the hate threatening to drown you. Chew on grief for breakfast, devour aches for lunch, inhale life’s acid, let it burn the costume he has forced upon you.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Weight of Blood