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"Sadly, the notion of black women as oversexed, emasculating workhorses remains not just in the majority culture but deep in the bones of a black community influenced by the broader culture’s racism and sexism—as well as in the considerable rewards that come with enforcing white, middle-class, Judeo-Christian, heteronormative respectability."

I just finished Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society.

"The most important thing was the inmates... see, if the inmates didn't like like it, you couldn't make it. It was up to the inmates, not the governor, because if they didn't like it, they'd kill you, so the inmates were behind us a hundred percent. The White boys and the Black boys, that's the way it was. And it was strictly a Black group!"

“Animals that live in large peaceful societies seem to violate the laws of evolution (such as competition and survival of the fittest), but only until you learn a bit more about evolution.”