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These Heathens

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Maame by Jessica George

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I almost tell her that fun doesn’t equate to happiness; at the very least, it lends you happiness and I want to know how to keep it. I’ve googled “How to be happy”; I’ve taken walks in the park and written long gratitude lists; I’m ...more

More Perfect

by Temi Oh

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Recitatif

by Toni Morrison

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“If unkindness is indeed a serial killer, then my revelation is that I was my own murderer. I had taught myself to bend to my own unkindness first, so that I would be able to withstand the unkindness of others. I will not bend anymore.”
― Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

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“i have always been the woman of my dreams.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

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“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: self-acceptance, strength

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“BLACK WOMEN aren’t meant to shovel snow.”
― Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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“The white man's god is just like the white man. He thinks he is the only god, just like the white man thinks he is the only man. But the only reason he is god instead of Nyame or Chukwu or whoever is because we let him be. We do not fight him. We do not even question him. The white man told us he was the way, and we said yes, but when has the white man ever told us something was good for us and tat thing was really good?”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

tags: christianity, philosophy, religion

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