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The Switch
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“What do you think people do when they lose someone? Just … plow on?” He smooths my hair back from my face. “You were healing. You’re still healing. You’ll maybe always be healing. And that’s OK. It’ll just be part of what makes you you.”
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“Just as fear of a Black man was used to justify lynching, fear of offending other white women has become the excuse for not confronting the harm white women are doing to themselves in their haste to uphold the limited protections offered by white privilege.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“There’s nothing empowering about the idea that the road to their sexual freedom is making a fetish costume out of a culture.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“We’re all on stolen land in the United States, but some communities are far less likely to be impacted by redlining or subprime lending.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that’s lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
from “Never give all the heart”
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Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that’s lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
from “Never give all the heart”
―
“Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us,
even in the leafless winter,
even in the ashy city.
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it
from “Starlings in Winter”
― Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
even in the leafless winter,
even in the ashy city.
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it
from “Starlings in Winter”
― Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
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