The enormous space that work occupies in Black women’s lives today follows a pattern established during the very earliest days of slavery.
“...it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die”
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“Smile again, he whispered.
I hadn't smiled for him. Ever. Or laughed. Under the Mountain, I had never grinned, never chuckled...”
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I hadn't smiled for him. Ever. Or laughed. Under the Mountain, I had never grinned, never chuckled...”
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“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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