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"“Put simply, if the state is naming the risk, then it is managed. State recognition gives the promise of state protection. With state protection, in a liberal framework, there is no longer a need for community protection.â€�" — Mar 29, 2023 09:53PM
"“Put simply, if the state is naming the risk, then it is managed. State recognition gives the promise of state protection. With state protection, in a liberal framework, there is no longer a need for community protection.â€�" — Mar 29, 2023 09:53PM
The Good Lie
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Obsession, as I frequently told my clients, never affected outside situations. They only made your internal struggles—and resulting personal actions and decisions—worse.
“It is a strange but persistent thing: to be possessed, desired, revolting. This triad of relations to power has been a long burden of Blackness, and its people.”
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“You see? Blue is a portal. Our ancestors have worked so hard from the other side to keep us going; this is how we tend to them in return.”
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“Black watching, worry, caution, are wise because what if the ones holding out their hands don't, in fact, shake yours warmly, but instead snatch you into snares? And you lose your balance, gone in an instant, like a fly in Venus flytrap.”
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“Melancholy is part of social movement, as is restraint. They are companions. The work of organizing for freedom requires a management of rage that can break your heart. There is no good reason one should have to endure spittle and bombs, insult, dogs, and jail in order to achieve simple legal recognition.”
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“On each hand that day, my uncle wore a single lapis ring. I was curious and asked him questions. Later he sent me articles about the symbolic meanings of lapis. I told him that I live according to one of his precepts, that as long as I can read, I can teach myself to do anything. Even survive a broken heart. And I have found something out along this way of grief-reading the sound and color and text. We Black people are not quite like other Americans. We do not live in the same fantasy that we might evade death by collecting things like dollars, houses, fences, and passports. But we are as human as humans come. The incomprehensible keeps happening. Death comes fast, frequent and unfair. And we're still here. We know how to breathe underwater. Living after death.”
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
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