details that were present during our girlhood are erased or disparaged in our literary culture
representation is vital and necessary, it validates your life experiences and reminds you that you are not in this alone.
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I was always writing, taking notes
I feel like writing, photography/videography and other arts, are sort of overlooked in the importance and need for self-expression. I think its a beautiful thing. These are things humans have been doing forever and modern society has shied ppl away from pursuing these things.
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I would lay my head on my pillow and feel nothing but the sharp sting of my father’s betrayal.
That's a lot of weight to be between your parent's issues especially at a young age. My heart would be crushed, especially feeling that betrayal from her father whom she looked after so much.
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They always made me feel ugly, the brown kid who would never look like her white mother.
Ex. of ways representation matters in building or destructing self-image and confidence from a young age.
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her heels. As petite as she was, my mother owned every room she walked into. She eclipsed the sun with her confidence, took the world by the throat and shook it until it gave up what was hers
The descriptive words really make her statements profound and vivid. Her mom was that girl.
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A woman’s body was beautiful, no matter how big, how small, how old, how pregnant.
Love the woman empowerment and I think as a society we should shift to this train of thought for all people. Its more realistic and healthy.
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things meant for girls, and that I was supposed to like them
I find it strange how society has traditionally tied certain practices to a made up construct of gender.
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I think its beautiful to hear of a mom being open about sexuality and her body. This is often frowned upon especially in religious households when in reality its a perfectly normal part of life. Creating that transparency is crucial for relationships especially for one between mother and daughter.
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69 percent of the country support a works program to provide employment to all and an equally astonishing 65 percent approve a program to tear down the slums.
Hypocrisy, it sounds nice to create more equality, but it would be "too much work" to help rebuild the "slums" or under-developed lower socioeconomic housing for people who were born underprivileged and constantly discriminated against
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Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience must ask the question, 'Is it right?!'
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There are those who tell me that I should stick with civil rights, and stay in my place. I can only respond that I have fought too hard and long to end segregated public accommodations to segregate my own moral concerns
Shows how people perpetuate behaviors in favor of the status quo even if/when morally wrong.
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They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
The conditions of the lives of black people in america at this time were created by the privileged whites
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It enables the most enraged and deprived Negro to take hold of consumer goods with the ease the white man does by using his purse. Often the Negro does not even want what he takes; he wants the experience of taking. But most of all, alienated from society and knowing that this society cherishes property above people, he is shocking it by abusing property rights.
The looting during riots have great symbolization. This describes the difference in priorities between white and black people during that time period especially. White people motivated by capitalism and its consequences were using their wealth on material goods, they did not have to fight for their basic human rights.
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White America stopped murder, but that is not the same thing as ordaining brotherhood; nor is the ending of lynch rule the same thing as inaugurating justice.
"White America" is no longer physically killing poc (as outright as they previously were) but the lack of social justice and equality persist to this day.
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I think this is the root cause of a substantial amount of suffering in America, White America keeping racism and "walls of segregation intact". This hinders the world's ability to change toward equality. These ideas that perpetuate segregation (in various aspects) are so deeply engraved in our (American) systems that it is a huge task to even begin to address.
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