Larissa

“School was going better for me than I had ever hoped. For the first time in my life, I began to know, really know, I was smart—smart as defined by being able to do the white man’s work, being able to study.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“Those who believe that the president or the vice-president and the congress and the supreme kourt run this country are sadly mistaken. The almighty dollar is king ; those who have the most money control the country and, through campaign contributions, buy and sell presidents, congressmen, and judges, the ones who pass the laws and enforce the laws that benefit their benefactors.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“Dear Sa’rah,
Who celebrates the dead ?
Who claps for the decapitated ?
The discarded
The forgotten
The answer is
We do
We speak
Her
And Emma
And Jubilee, who preferred Jubi
And Ruby
And Gladys, who I called Mimi
And Nadia, who you call Nana
And me, Tatiana, who you call Mama
And you
Who takes pride in legend ?
Who boasts about the beheaded ?
The cursed
The christened
The crowned
The answer is we do
We speak
To the land where she came in chains
Soil made rich and fertile by our blood
Connected in our bones
Bound through time like the sineus and tissues
She was here
As you are now

Who sings a mother’s song
Who finds joy in the souls on the other side
The angels
The ancestors
The ascendant architects of our purpose
The answer is we do
Because we remember”
― Nikesha Elise Williams, The Seven Daughters of Dupree

“Sorrow hugged her words.”
― Nikesha Elise Williams, The Seven Daughters of Dupree