Julia

“The soulless ones are not our greatest enemies. They were as deceived as We were. Our ultimate enemy is greed. For greed hardens hearts and minds and renders other people as less than human, as merely flesh.”
― Kyra Ann Dawkins, The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History

“We used to think that hunger was our greatest enemy...[a]nd yet, though hunger can still be dreadful, it helped forge our family. We would have never become a *We* if We did not unite over a shared need....Our capacity to feel and endure hunger and lacking and pain reveals We are human.”
― Kyra Ann Dawkins, The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History

“If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings