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Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson

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We do not want the whispers, winks, and side conversations when no one in power is looking. While I’m glad to know so many people support us behind closed doors, it would mean more to have this support out in the open. Your silence is ...more

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Sally’s Quotes

“The most important thing you can do in this world, the most necessary thing, is to survive it. You can't do anything for anyone else if you don't take care of yourself first.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

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“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“Don't make your life about the loss. Make it about the love.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

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“When not properly fortified, a legacy is no more enduring than a wisp of plankton.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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“One can only go for so long without asking ‘who am I?’, ‘where do I come from?’, ‘what does all this mean?’, ‘what is being?’, ‘what came before me and what might come after?’. Without answers there is only a hole. A hole where a history should be that takes the shape of an endless longing. We are cavities.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

tags: colonialism, history, intergenerational, memories

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