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“I never heard the words, "sexual violence" or "violent sex" or "sexual abuse" from one family member, one teacher, or one preacher but my body knew sexual violence and violent sex were as wrong as anything police or white folk could do to us.”
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“I didn't understand hell, partially because I didn't believe any place could be hotter than Mississippi in August.”
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“Mostly, I wondered what black writers weren't writing when we spent so much creative energy begging white folk to change.”
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“That’s the part I was stuck in, the part where you accept the apology because it’s easier than addressing the root of the problem,”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“For the first time in my life, I realized telling the truth was way different from finding the truth, and finding the truth had everything to do with revisiting and rearranging words. Revisiting and rearranging words didn't only require vocabulary; it required will, and maybe courage. Revised word patterns were revised thought patterns. Revised thought patterns shaped memory. I knew, looking at all those words, that memories were there, I just had to rearrange, add, subtract, sit, and sift until I found a way to free the memory.”
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