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Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.
It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.
The best feeling in the world is to know that you belong to me and you are mine. Every morning that is all I need to know, and that itself is enough for me to have a good day. — Joseph Moran
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. – Gail Lumet Buckley
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. ― Toni Morrison
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. — Toni Morrison
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. — Toni Morrison, “Beloved
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
