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“Your beauty is denied but replicated. Your sexuality is controlled but desired. You take up too much space, but if you are too small, you are ripped apart. Despite the wash of it, that’s one thing you can always count on whiteness to do: destroy a threat.”
― Jackal
― Jackal
“Being blind to color only makes you blind.”
― Jackal
― Jackal
“Danger for Black girls was different. It didn’t obey the boundaries of stories. For them, it was always real.”
― Jackal
― Jackal
“Stuck is more than a location,” she said. “It’s a state of mind.”
― Jackal
― Jackal
“Myths are as much a part of the slipstream of Black life as joy. Yes, Black folks are masters of joy. Trauma isn’t the only thing carried in DNA. Blackness, like any Golden Fleece, is both a birthright and what lies at the end of a quest.”
― Jackal
― Jackal
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