Didn’t know the whole world was mine…my princess self….
didn’t know bout this crown on my head,
just death and pain till the winds got tired of blowing on me….
said it was time for the branch to be lifting my chin from the ground so lest I could see what the sky looks like…
held me in his arms like orange autumns in September…
fresh air, cool and breezy like.
“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change—it can not only move us, it makes us move.”
– Davis, Ossie Actor (1917-)
“I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with the pain.”
Baldwin, James Writer (1924-1987)
“Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.”
– Anderson, Marian Singer (1897-1993)
Sometimes you gotta realize that you are worth more than they way people treat you. And then you gotta realize the role you play in the way that people treat you. And finally, you gotta make the decision to stop letting people treat you that way.
• It is difficult to get her to listen to new information about a new approach to living her life because she is so certain that she is justified in being out of order. She is mostly a lot of mouth. She can be a number of things, as already proven, but she cannot be a man.
• By nature the Blackman cannot submit to the woman.
• All the good things she says she wants would be immediately available to her if she drops her defenses, drops her suspicions and allows herself to melt into the waiting arms of the man who loves her.
• When the Blackwoman attacks the Blackman publicly she inadvertently gives the entire world permission to attack him also.
• It is not easy for a Blackman to be motivated if his woman doubts him, or if their relationship is so stormy that it takes his head and robs him of the ability to concentrate
• The Blackman can tell which woman is his by the way she submits to his ideas and instructions. And by the way she works to make him happy. His Blackwoman should take the position that his success is her success—their success, and work as a team.
• By letting the Black man be the head of the family she could revive him, and by getting behind him and supporting him he could be free.
“Raised under the protection of her mother and the field hands, Stella is unaware that she is a slave. Not being accustomed to hard labor, things change when Mama dies and she falls into the cruel hands of Marse Saddler. Years later, when The Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1864 allegedly abolishes slavery in the state, Stella learns of Saddler’s plan to keep her on the plantation. She then agrees to accompany Saddler’s daughter Miss Carla and her husband John, to The Windy City {Chicago} and learns the hard way the difference between slavery and freedom.”
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