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Some are having an okay time of middle age; many are struggling in one way or another. Some feel on the verge of, as one said, “blowing it all up.”
“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
“In every workplace I have occupied, white people have gotten away with being rude because they were in a hurry, or mean because they were going through a lot, or aggressive because their anger was evidence that they cared deeply. On the other hand, Black women must walk on eggshells.”
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
“Witnessing isn’t passive. It is an act of meeting the moment, of being present to the pain, of knowing it could be any one of us next.”
― 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
“I imagine they found me to be quite mean. And I love that for myself.”
― 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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