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Love is a story that can be read from different perspectives. I think the easiest is love one feels from belonging, usually to a family or a community at large. I think feeling was missing in all of the characters to some extent, which led to the dec
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“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. ”
― Dust Tracks on a Road
― Dust Tracks on a Road
“Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.”
― Dust Tracks on a Road
― Dust Tracks on a Road
“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“Black women are survivors. They have developed values over almost four centuries that actually seem to work. At a time when the problems of our society often seem insoluble and the obstacles to peace and freedom seem insurmountable, all Americans have a great deal to learn from black women.”
― A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America
― A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America
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