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I am black because I come from the earth’s inside Take my word for jewel in your open light.
“let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.”
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
“They were so desperate to project the image of the respectable, righteous, picture-perfect Black Family to the world that they were willing to let the women and girls in those pictures suffer.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
“The electrified fence of segregation and the centuries of shocks it delivered so effectively circumscribed the lives of American blacks that even after the current was turned off, the idea of climbing over the fence inspired dread.”
― Hidden Figures
― Hidden Figures
“Sexual assault must simultaneously be terrible and be something you're able to accept--which is an impossibly hard thing to negotiate.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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