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We can really change only two things: our own minds and our own behavior.
“Racism is mean, is malevolent. And I intended to match its energy. I chose a publishing house that had no problems when I wrote “White people can be exhausting” as my opening sentence. I wrote the book I needed.”
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
“Black people, especially Black women, are told we have an attitude problem when what we actually have is insider information.”
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
“Trying to drop into my body to figure out what I want to do next, as opposed to what I think the white people around me are expecting I might do. “Double consciousness,” as W.E.B. Du Bois called it, is a beast.”
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
“One day I would read Audre Lorde and recognize that my silence had not saved me. One day I would read Audre Lorde and tears would stream down my face as I recognized the importance of my own anger. One day I would read Audre Lorde and step into myself.”
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
“One person sleeps and another person marches. One person watches the kids and another person cooks. One person hosts the meeting and another person eats. One person posts bail and another person holds the family. We don’t just march together, fight together, write together, meet together. We also look out for one another and our physical needs.”
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
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