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“Black women are almost always justified in their anger.”
― Carefree Black Girls Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

“The thing that makes men manly is that they force everyone to be witness to their vengeance. I want no part in this.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“There’s nothing you can learn from another person that you couldn’t understand more clearly from within yourself. Your truest connection with the god of your own understanding happens inside yourself, not with someone else.”
― Jessamyn Stanley, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance

“I felt like a bruised burden, and in my refusal to become a victim, I neglected the tenderness of being a survivor”
― Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection