“To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.”
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.