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“This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harder and rockier for Black people than for their white counterparts. Our teachers warned us that we would have to steel ourselves for hard labor and more hard labor, sacrifices and more sacrifices. Only this would prove that we were serious about overcoming all the obstacles before us. It often struck me they were speaking of these obstacles as if they would always be there, part of the natural order of things, rather than the product of a system of racism, which we could eventually overturn.”
― Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

“I just don’t think I write enough on how much I enjoy life lately. This change, this SEX CHANGE that is supposed to be so weird, has in reality made me feel LESS weird. I can relax + laugh + not THINK before I say or do something + it all comes out right + I’m relaxed
+ I think, “My God, if they only knew…”
― Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

“If there is something I will always carry in my heart it is this earnest unwillingness to be part of the bunch,”
― Eileen Myles, Chelsea Girls: A Novel

“I have waited all my life for permission. I feel it growing in my breast. A war is storming and it is behind me and I am moving my forces into light.”
― Eileen Myles (author), Chelsea Girls