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all the love in the world will not bring us happiness or make a relationship work.
“We say we deserve another knowing, the knowing that comes when you assume your life will be long, will be vibrant will be healthy. We deserve to imagine a world without prisons and punishment, a world where they are not needed, a world rooted in mutuality. We deserve to at least aim for that.”
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
“had she ever lived and been free in even the smallest corner of the world where she was not judged and shamed? Was this the place that could offer her or any of us this?”
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
“He tells me how he cannot remember ever feeling good about himself. He says he never did find a way to learn how to love himself. We sit with that for a time; what it means to not have the ability to love yourself. How do you honor something you do not love?”
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
“What could they be but stardust, these people who refused to die, who refused to accept the idea that their lives did not matter, that their children’s lives did not matter” - Patrisse Khan Cullers”
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
“is this what it is to be a mother who has to carry the weight of having to protect her children in a world that is conspiring to kill them? Are you forced to exist within a terrible trinity of emotion: rage, grief of guilt? What of the joy and the peace that loving a child brings? What of pride and of hope? Could it really be true that my mother has been given no door number four or five or six or even seven to walk through in order to know the wholeness of motherhood? Is she one in a long line of Black mothers limited to survival mode or grief?”
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Jalisa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jalisa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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