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The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Elisabeth Foley

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This coming Saturday Nov 28th.......

“I thought 50 years ago that I could make a big difference in the world,” Nikki Giovanni said. “What I know now is that I will not allow the world to make a big difference in me.”

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Nikki Giovanni. Credit: Shaban Athuman for The New York Times

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Where one is wise, two are happy.

He is rich he who owes nothing. Unknown.

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The prettiest smiles hide the deepest secrets.

The prettiest eyes have cried the most tears.

The kindest hearts have felt the most pain.

(unknown)

On returning home ...
 

I had at last come home.

If there was, in this, some illusion, there was also some truth.

In the years in Paris, I had never been homesick for anything American. Neither waffles, ice cream, hot dogs, baseball, majorettes, movies, nor the Empire State Building, nor Coney Island, nor the Statue of Liberty, nor the Daily News, nor Times Square. All of these things had passed out of me. They might never had existed, and it made absolutely no difference to me if I never saw them again.

But I missed my brothers and sisters, and my mother. They made a difference. I wanted to be able to see them and to see their children. I hoped that they wouldn't forget me. I missed Harlem Sunday mornings and fried chicken and biscuits, and I missed the music. I missed the style... that style possessed by no other people in the world. I missed the way the dark face closes, the way dark eyes watch, and the way, when a dark face opens, a light seems to go everywhere. I missed, in short, my connections, missed the life which had produced me and nourished me and paid for me.

Now, though I was a stranger, I was home.

—James Baldwin.

btw this isn’t the extent of the horrors white supremacists will enact. the real horrors will start as they return to their communities with the high of having broken into the fucking capitol with guns and bombs and having been protected by the police and the president. the real horrors will be enacted on poc and Black ppl specifically now that white supremacists know they can do whatever the fuck they want with guaranteed protection, they will not be enacted on congressmen. it’s not your politicians you have to worry about. pelosi will be just fine.

—Anonymous poster on the Internet

On Black History on the 1st Day of Black History Month
 

... Many MAGA .sapiens believe that they lived in a Democratic society until Nov. 3, 2020. They actually believed that voter suppression and disenfranchisement had nothing to do with low Black voter turnout. These motherfucker truly believed that Black people just didn’t like to vote.

And that’s not racism. That’s white supremacy.

Part of the reason white folks think they live in a democratic republic is that they don’t know shit about Black history. Because white history is deemed more important, they don’t understand that the mass murders during Reconstruction reconfigured American politics more than the Civil War. They don’t understand that the civil rights movement wasn’t about going to white schools and eating at white lunch counters, it was about democracy.

The story of the civil rights movement is more important than the Cuban missile crisis. Slavery is more important to understanding the American economy than the development of the light bulb, the automobile and the telephone combined.

You can’t comprehend this country’s geographical makeup without studying the Great Migration. You can’t understand how America won the War of 1812 without understanding the German Coast Uprising. You can’t understand police without understanding slave patrols. You can’t understand America’s gun culture and the Second Amendment unless you learn about slave revolts.

—Michael Harriet, journalist at The Root.

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” ― Leo Tolstoy

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a new beginning...
 

never be the same again...
 

hug...
 

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

-Lemony Snicket

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It is not the light that we need but fire, it is not the gentle shower, but thunderstorm. We need the storm, the whirlwind and the earthquake.

Frederick Douglas

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.” ― Mitch Albom