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Thu 16 Mar 2023

Phillis

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, poetry, quote of the day, racism, slavery
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Random quote of the day:

“Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
Their colour is a diabolic die.
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.

—Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” 1773

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Wed 9 Nov 2022

Child

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, children, freedom, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Our freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child…every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin.”

—Rosa Parks, the Library of Congress website,
https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/rosa-parks-in-her-own-words/about-this-exhibition/detroit-1957-and-beyond/

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Tue 9 Aug 2022

Kitchen

Posted by PJ under american, black lives matter, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I, Too

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.”

—Langston Hughes

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Fri 14 Jan 2022

Time travel

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, history, nostalgia, quote of the day, time
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Random quote of the day:

“The New York Times reported that nearly seven in ten Republicans prefer America as it was in the fifties, a nostalgia of course entirely unavailable to a person like me, for in that period I could not vote, marry my husband, have my children, work in the university I work in, or live in my neighborhood. Time travel is a discretionary art: a pleasure trip for some and a horror story for others. Meanwhile some on the left have time-travel fancies of their own, imagining that the same rigid ideological principles once applied to the matters of workers’ rights, welfare and trade can be applied unchanged to a globalized world of fluid capital.”

—Zadie Smith, “On Optimism and Despair,” Feel Free

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Thu 4 Nov 2021

Soul

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, quote of the day, racism, soul
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Random quote of the day:

“The work of anti-racism can only take place inside each individual soul, where we all try to grow into better people. There is no national tonic or instant cure.”

—Joy Reid, Think: Opinion, Analysis, Essays, May 29, 2018

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Wed 7 Jul 2021

People

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, quote of the day, the human condition, themes, writers, writing
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“There’s a notion out in the land that there are human beings one writes about, and then there are black people or Indians or some other marginal group. If you write about the world from that point of view, somehow it is considered lesser. It’s racist, of course. The fact that I chose to write about black people means I’ve only been stimulated to write about black people. We are people, not aliens. We live, we love, we die.”

—Toni Morrison, Black Women Writers at Work, ed. Claudia Tate

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Tue 22 Jun 2021

Resistance

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, justice, peace, quote of the day, resistance
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Random quote of the day:

“An act of violence against any innocent person eludes martial and moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality and racial inequality, undermines the blood our ancestors’ spilled as they turned the other cheek, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.”

—Benjamin Crump, “Statement from the Brown Family Attorneys,” March 12, 2015

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Wed 26 May 2021

Gender

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, gender, quote of the day, race
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Random quote of the day:

“As a Black woman and a Black woman in journalism, I’ve spent most of my career and most of my life mainly thinking about what it means to be a Black person in America. I think about my race from the time I wake up until the time I go to bed….I think a lot more about being Black than I think about being a woman….Because if you are a white woman, until very recently, you have not thought about being white, which frees you up to think about the only thing that holds you back in life, which is gender.”

—Errin Haines, Glamour, “8 Journalists on Reporting While Black, With the Weight of History on Their Shoulders,” June 3, 2020

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Tue 20 Apr 2021

At stake

Posted by PJ under action and activism, black lives matter, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Sometimes people feel powerless and overwhelmed by it all. One doesn’t have to be a frontline activist…Everyone in the community has a role to play in transforming our community. Everyone must ask themselves, what is at stake in these times?”

—Bree Newsome Bass, Cornell Chronicle, February 14, 2019

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Tue 13 Oct 2020

Unstoppable

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, human rights, perseverance, quote of the day, racism
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Random quote of the day:

“The thought of someone believing you deserve fewer rights because of who you are is depressing. But then you realize that, by doing what you do every day, you prove to them you are unstoppable. They can spend their time trying to pass laws to take away your rights and silence your voice, but all you have to do is live your lives right in their faces, and it proves you simply cannot be stopped.”

―Amber Ruffin, Late Night, November 11, 2016

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