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I am black because I come from the earth’s inside Take my word for jewel in your open light.
“Not tonight, good Iago. I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.”
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“The less we understand a group in society--the less we bother to learn--the more misconceptions and worries we have.”
― This Book Is Gay
― This Book Is Gay
“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
“No matter what happens to our bodies in our lifetimes..., they remain ours.”
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“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
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