“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
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.
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.