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We can really change only two things: our own minds and our own behavior.
“It never occurred to them to wonder what book a Black woman—including its author—might need.”
― 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
“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
“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
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