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#1

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
― James Baldwin

#2

“Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

tags: american-history, native-american-genocide, racism, slavery

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#3

“But we were girls once, which is to say, we have all loved an ain’t-shit man. No Christian way of putting it. There are two types of men in the world: men who are and men who ain’t about shit.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

48 likes

#4

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

3818 likes

#5

“Reckless white boys became politicians and bankers, reckless black boys became dead.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

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#6

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”
― Ntozake Shange

1591 likes

#7

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

tags: pain, voice

1094 likes

#8

“Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.”
― Ralph Ellison

60 likes

#9

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

2959 likes

#10

“#StopPretendingHashtagsAreTheSameAsDoingSomething”
― Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

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#11

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

tags: discrimination, humor, self-assurance, self-worth

997 likes

#12

“I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive

1817 likes

#13

“I only debate my equals. All others, I teach.”
― John Henrik Clarke

tags: john-henrik-clarke

29 likes

#14

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

3967 likes

#15

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: fear, hate, pain

3223 likes

#16

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

9037 likes

#17

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

2629 likes

#18

“Own things. And let the things you own own other things.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: business-advice, life-and-living, life-lessons

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#19

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: freedom, self

3055 likes

#20

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20760 likes

#21

“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

485 likes

#22

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: inspirational, responsibility

451 likes

#23

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
― Mikhail Baryshnikov

216 likes

#24

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul”
― Martha Graham

tags: dance, dancing

1041 likes

#25

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

4580 likes

#26

“He who seeks beauty will find it.”
― Bill Cunningham

tags: fashion, photography

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