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Coconut. A familiar enough insult from my days on the beat. Coconut said I’m brown on the outside but white inside. A traitor to my community.


“An opportunity means change. An opportunity means action. But most of all, an opportunity means the chance of failure. And it’s the potential for failure, more than failure itself, that stops so many people from beginning anything.”
― Black Buck
― Black Buck

“Sometimes being a good ally is about opening the door for someone instead of insisting that your voice is the only one that matters.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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