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“Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it”
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“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
“How strange a world, how strange an existence, that one’s equal must argue for one’s equality, that one’s equal must hold a station that allows airing of that argument, that one cannot make that argument for oneself, that premises of said argument must be vetted by those equals who do not agree.”
― James
― James
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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