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“The most important part of writing, and really life,” you said, “is revision.”
“But I always imagined that everyone’s Sunken Place would look different, a manifestation of our own personal horrors.”
― Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
― Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
“And in that moment, this moment, I realized that perhaps I’ve scratched at the emotional laceration of shame, of selfishness. But if my mother is right, the itching isn’t coming from infection anymore, it’s coming from the fact I’ve never removed the dressing from the wound.”
― You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
― You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
“food security for rural communities. When the household and community are food-secure, the girl child is food-secure. When the household and community are food-insecure, it is the girl child who, because of gender discrimination, pays the highest price in terms of malnutrition. When access to food diminishes, the girl child’s share is last and least. The politics of food is gendered at multiple levels.”
― Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development
― Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development
“We’re afraid that the feeling of joy won’t last, or that there won’t be enough, or that the transition to disappointment (or whatever is in store for us next) will be too difficult. We’ve learned that giving in to joy is, at best, setting ourselves up for disappointment and, at worst, inviting disaster. And we struggle with the worthiness issue. Do we deserve joy, given our inadequacies and imperfections?”
― You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
― You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
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