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Documentations & debriefs of literature related to my areas of study.A big thank you to the authors, professors, and scholars mentioned. Thank you for illuminating me.
guiding excerpts
Anchoring in Black Feminism & Activism.
"Women of color in America have grown up
within a symphony of anger, at being silenced,
and being unchosen, and knowing that when
we survive, it is in spite of a world that takes
for granted our lack of humanness, which
hates our very existence outside of its service.
And I say symphony rather than cacophony
because we have had to learn to orchestrate
those furies so that they do not tear us apart.
We have had to learn to move through them
and use them for strength and force and
insight within our daily lives.
Those of us who
did not learn this difficult lesson did not
survive.
And part of my anger is always
libation for my fallen sisters."
Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde
1984
"To be clear, Black living and Black surviving matters.
We can’t be dogmatic about the rightness or wrongness of embracing rage or choosing safety.
It would be irresponsible for me to tell people to embrace rage and all its consequences when I daily put on a respectable outfit and drive a solidly middle-class car to a solidly middle-class job.
Perfecting the art of respectability in the right moments helped me to make it this far.
But the more access I have to halls of power, to places where decisions get made, the more rage I feel.
I know how to count the costs of my rage, but I wonder if we’ve learned how to count the costs of our respectability.
It makes us emotionally dishonest. It makes us unable to see each other.
It causes us to sympathize with the dignity vampires, come to take everything from us while claiming we brought it on ourselves"
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