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How am I supposed to live with myself knowing I could have helped somebody but chose not to? I can't enjoy freedom like that.

"Not every leader is out on the front line with their face being posted for the world to see. For every Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, there was a dozen abolitionists and activists working behind the scenes, risking it all to help us meet our true potential. Everybody wasn't made to be out front."

Harriet to D: "When I help Black folks get to freedom, I don't ask them a bunch of questions about who they love and what they do. I only concern myself with where they need to go. You understand me? The biggest struggle in earning your freedom is feeling like you deserve it. Something we feel like we ain't worth putting in the work."

On coming out: "Don't you understand that you are taking this road for other people? It ain't got nothing to do with you."

Darnell: "I had a hard time accepting my Blackness because my Blackness had a hard time accepting me."

"The richest of white folks have also convinced the poorest of white folks that if Blacks was to become equal, if Black folks got rights, if Black folks was seen on the same level as white folks, that it would somehow be bad for them."

Harriet talking to Darnell about her friend John Brown:

"The only thing that scares a racist white man more than a smart Black woman fighting for her freedom is the white man that helps her."

Freedom is such a tricky concept? When are you really free? The question makes me think of Nina Simone.

Religion should be a force for bringing people together, not tearing them apart.

-Says a 1730s little person to a modern queer Black man

I've never been able to reconcile what it means to be Black, queer, and American all at once.