always talk about this Fannie Lou Hamer quote as the way that I orient around the right kind of hard. She says, “If I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom.” That’s how I know it’s the right kind of hard. It doesn’t mean my knees ain’t scraped up; it doesn’t mean I didn’t lose some skin. I might be bleeding; I might have broke something. But am I closer toward my own revelation of my divinity than I was before I started? If so, then I’m doing the right kind of hard. I’m doing the work of reclaiming my liberation. A lot of people don’t do this work because
...more
