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“Food, racism, power, and justice are linked. What I’m trying to do is dismantle culinary nutritional imperialism and gastronomic white supremacy with one cup of zobo made from hibiscus, one bowl of millet salad with groundnuts and dark green vegetables, and one piece of injera at a time. The next wave of human rights abuse is in the form of nutrition injustice”
― Michael W. Twitty, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South—A James Beard Award Winner

“own, did that mean we were living the same story over and over again, down through the generations? That the young and Black had always been dying, until all that was left were children and the few old, as in war?”
― Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir

“I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, through words.”
― Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

“Truth is, among low-wage earners busting their tails to make the rent, one’s feelings are seldom discussed or acknowledged. Emotional wellness is a First World luxury.”
― Diane Guerrero, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided