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“You could search the whole world over and never find anyone as deserving of your love as yourself.” Not only did the Buddha say that love for oneself is possible, but he also described this capacity as something we must nurture, since it’s
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“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
“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
“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
“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
“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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