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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

“Dad let me cry against the fabric of his shirt. I cried because I felt guilty. And helpless. And lonely and frustrated and angry. I cried because I couldn’t tell if everything was changing or nothing was.”
― Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

“When you say, “What would we do without prisons?” what you are really saying is: “What would we do without civil death, exploitation, and state-sanctioned violence?”
― Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

“See me.”
― Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments