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But I have traveled around the world and I know this to be true: there are assholes who wear natural hair, and assholes who wear weaves. Your hair is not going to determine or even influence what kind of person you are.
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“We can learn from trauma. We can become better, more efficient, if we do the work.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
“We move not on but forward.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
“And isn’t that what literature should teach us. To be our own hero. To love. To care. To cry. To laugh. To live. And try to let others live, too.”
― Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems – A Tour de Force of African American Poetry and Contemporary Literature
― Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems – A Tour de Force of African American Poetry and Contemporary Literature
“Similarly, I owe a great deal to my female ancestors and the women who mothered me.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
“I don’t think you’re ever really grown.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
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