“The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.”
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
