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I have learned that for me, shame is like kryptonite. It was utterly destructive, a boot on my neck for most of my life. It is powerful and treacherous, and it is a luxury I cannot afford.
“Our stories are insistent. They will make themselves known, one way or another.”
― She Wrote it Down: How a Secret-Keeper Became a Storyteller
― She Wrote it Down: How a Secret-Keeper Became a Storyteller
“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.”
― Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
― Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.”
― Homer & Langley
― Homer & Langley
“Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“In the eyes of the vast majority of white Americans, the refusal of the southern states to fully free or enfranchise former slaves and their descendants was not an issue worthy of any further disruption to the civil stability of the United States. Black Americans were exchanged for a sense of white security.”
― Slavery by Another Name (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
― Slavery by Another Name (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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