Leilani Mroczkowski

“But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding?”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The confederate flag, for example, will never stand for heritage for black folks. It still awakens fear in the minds and imaginations of elder black folks for whom it signaled the support of white racist assault on blackness”
― Bell Hooks

“In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. Other than that they were different, to be dreaded, and in that dread was included the hostility of the powerless against the powerful, the poor against the rich, the worker against the worked for and the ragged against the well dressed.

I remember never believing that whites were really real.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Nature was th eplace where one could escape the world of man made constuctions of race and identity.”
― Bell Hooks, Belonging: A Culture of Place