To me, the black black woman ...

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.