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Vanessa Freeman

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“Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

tags: living, suicide

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“The revolution that goes on in your head, nobody will ever see that.”
― Gil Scott-Heron

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“Hunger erased all traces of love
so I packed my philosophy and left
My philosophy being simply
I can do better by myself”
― Margaret H. Oliver, A Woman's Place: The Complete Poetry Collection of Margaret Oliver

tags: black-women, divorce, end-of-a-marriage, marriage, separation

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“They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

tags: african-americans, amendments, america, americans, black-people, racism, racist, white-privilege

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“To turn black women into objectified others was to underline their difference; they may be beautiful, but they are of another kind, separate from the dominant understanding of attractiveness.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

tags: black-women, serena-wiliams, tennis, venus-williams, wiliams-sisters

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