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“Talk, without effort, is nothing; you are abundantly capable, gentlemen, of making yourself men of distinction; and this gross neglect, on your part, causes my blood to boil within me.”
― Sojourner Truth, Ain't I A Woman?

“You weren't getting up when you were being mean to yourself either, so at least you can be nice to yourself. No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health.”
― KC Davis

“English womanhood is beset by no such snares and traps as betray the unprotected, untrained colored girl of the South, whose only crime and dire destruction often is her unconscious and marvelous beauty.”
― Sojourner Truth, Ain't I A Woman?

“Domestic violence was epidemic ("It is something to boast about if her husband does not beat her"), and so were other forms of black-on-black violence, much of it ignored by the law.”
― Jason DeParle, American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare