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“Their gazes and words
are heavy with all the things
they want you to be.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“All these words from the seller, but not one word from the sold. The Kings and Captains whose words moved ships. But not one word from the cargo. The thoughts of the “black ivory,” the “coin of Africa,” had no market value. Africa’s ambassadors to the New World have come and worked and died, and left their spoor, but no recorded thought.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

“Make sure your decency, your humanity, is the last thing you give up.”
― Leonard Pitts Jr., The Last Thing You Surrender

“The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X