Favorite Quotes

“If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.”

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

"...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you; we are in charge of our attitudes."

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”

“Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Quotable: Taalam Acey

"...Instead I hear a million ancestors yell that I have no right to have no life. They tell me I am exactly what comes after the ones that survived The Middle Passage. They tell me I am directly descended from the ones that thought it was punk shit to jump ship...They sing that I am the ungrateful realization of their dreams. They sing that I am their social, technologically spoiled offspring. They sing since it took 400 years of misery to bring me here my suicide is not an acceptable offering."
-Taalam Acey

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