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When I loved my…
When I loved myself enough, I began leaving everything that wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits–anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it...
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When my student…
When my student Wilson asked me how I want to be loved, I was afraid to tell that I want to be loved by an unreasonable love that loves me enough to say and mean that Trayvon Martin, Rachel Jeantel,...
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Race is not a b…
Race is not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities because of genetic differences. Race is a political category that has staggering biological consequences because of the...
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In order to hav…
In order to have reproductive autonomy, we need to work towards reproductive and environmental justice. Reproductive justice only exists when we—all the people of the world—have the political and...
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Sociohistorical…
Sociohistorical factors have created the climate in which black women’s continued strength for the benefit of others becomes an expectation. Both black women’s activism for community survival of the...
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Being black affected one’s life span…
Being black affected one’s life span, insurance rates, blood pressure, lovers, children, every dangerous hour of every dangerous day. There was absolutely no way not to be black without ceasing to...
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There comes a t…
There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it’s the...
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Jared Sexton, on active Blackness
this acceptance or affirmation is active; it is a willing or willingness, in other words, to pay whatever social costs accrue to being black, to inhabiting blackness, to living a black social life...
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nayyirah waheed, on believing in yourself
believing in yourself is not a luxury. it is where the wildness enters your genius. it is wanton survival and burning indifference to what and who you are not supposed to be. it is the deepest...
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Christian D. Larson, on Your Forces and How to Use Them
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something...
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Megan Lee, on poverty
Poverty is not simply having no money — it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust. It is not being able to differentiate between employers and exploiters and abusers. It is contempt for...
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