Many black women in the United States are... - Queer, Gifted & Black

Many black women in the United States are broken-hearted. They walk around in daily life carrying so much hurt, feeling wasted, yet pretending in every area of their life that everything is under control. It hurts to pretend. It hurts to live with lies. The time has come from black women to attend to that hurt.
– bell hooks; Sisters of the Yam: black women and self-recovery (via afrafemme)
(via communityandresistance)

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