Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

by Brittney Cooper

It is Black American women whose bodily history is bound up with the burden of reproducing the condition of unfreedom for our children.

American democracy is as much a project of suppressing Black rage as it is of legitimizing and elevating white rage.

Curiosity is often the first casualty of the politics of fear. Sometimes the things we fear most are our questions. More specifically, we fear the questions to which we don’t have answers. When we are afraid, we stop asking questions and start seeking short-term solutions.