I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes
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Maya Angelou on Black Women’s Strength
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.
-Maya Angelou
Asha Bandele on the Man you deserve
You deserve a man who isn’t afraid of you, and who isn’t afraid of everything that brought you pain, and who will face that pain with you, no matter how ugly it is…You deserve a man who will tell you when you’re wrong, and who will listen when you tell him he’s wrong, and a man who is going to be just as open as you are, and just as free with his thoughts as you are, and just as willing to struggle with himself as you are…
Asha Bandele (via funkchunk)
like black butterflies 