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My brother had put away his childish things when he was about nine years old, and among those childish things was me. I wasn’t part of his life, and I knew it.
“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
“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
“And so often, this is also what it means to be a Black woman in America: working during the day to put food on the table and then protesting all night to make America do better. It means splitting ourselves in half. This is what it’s like to save ourselves.”
― 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 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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