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If someone loves us but we are trapped by self-hatred, their love will never reach us. We will question it, devalue it, be like the heroine of Nikki Giovanni’s “Woman Poem,” who declares, “i ain’t shit you must be lower / than that to care.”

+ nikki giovanni pull & rip to both of them.

‘I remember urging Mama with all the hubris and wild courage of late-sixties adolescence to leave Dad. And I have never forgotten the sad and weary look on her face when she turned to me, saying in the smallest voice, “Who would want me?” With pure adolescent wonder..’

… queen??