Status Updates From Sister Outsider

"For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, 'beautiful/and tough as chesnut/stancjions against (y)our nightmare of weakness and of impotence'. These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through that darkness."

"There's much I think that Russian people now take for granted. I think they take for granted free hospitalization and free medical care. They take for granted free universities and free schooling (...). We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not." Toni in the 80's during her Soviet Union visit.

Funny, the same could be said for the French.

“When we turn from anger we turn from insight, saying we will accept only the designs already known, deadly and safely familiar.”

“To turn aside from the anger of Black women […] is merely another way of preserving racial blindness, the power of unaddressed privilege, unbreached, intact.”

—“The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”