Reminders for myself
I felt that I was still waking up, feel that I am still waking up, still searching for the right words, still trying to see a people whose oppression depended on their erasure. And I could not end this story there.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • The Message
the world is hard then you will be soft within it; you will add as much goodness to the landscape and the moment as possible, no matter how futile that might seem to certain people.
Beth McColl • Romanticise Your Life
We live, if we are able to live, in an infant past, planted in fields that were ours for hundreds of years until a moment ago, before the dough rose and coffeepots cooled
Ta-Nehisi Coates • The Message
The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding
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