Jetaime

“True, you couldn’t treat an Irishman like an African, white nigger or no.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“EVER since she saw a woodcut of a missionary surrounded by jungle natives, Ethel thought it would be spiritually fulfilling to serve the Lord in dark Africa, delivering savages to the light.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“were not only healthier but also less likely to report having been abused or neglected than a similar group whose mothers had not been visited. They also were more likely to have finished school, to have stayed out of jail, and to be working in well-paying jobs. Economists have calculated that every dollar invested in high-quality home visitation, day care, and preschool programs results in seven dollars of savings on welfare payments, health-care costs, substance-abuse treatment, and incarceration, plus higher tax revenues due to better-paying jobs. 37”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“I have never seen a person no matter what age, look, ability, height, this or that be passionate about life and not be beautiful.”
― Minna Salami, Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone