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1 " Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many. "
― Randi Pink , Into White
2 " Greenwood chipped in to help prop up Isaiah's household. He, therefore, was quietly indepted to them all, even his best friend. Isaiah could never show himself as he truly was on the inside. He could only acquiesce and get through the day. "
― Randi Pink , Angel of Greenwood
3 " While I was asking God to change me, he was utilising what he was born with to conquer all things "
4 " The shocking death of a loved one isn't a wailing thing. The real shudder comes from the world moving on as if nothing's happened. Shops flip their Closed signs to Open, patrons gather at the theaters and soda shops, and people dare smile at things that make them happy, while those left in the ruins find joy in nothing. "
5 " No, worse, the one that fights members of its own army: dark-skinned against light-skinned, uppity against inner city, good hair against bad hair; "
6 " The only space for Black Tulsans in the white imagination had become too successful. Too much of a threat, "
7 " No revolutionary cared so much how they were seen within the flawed world. They only cared for repairing it. "
8 " Working for one's own benefit is not work at all. "
9 " June 1, 1921, idyllic, prosperous, exceptional Greenwood was looted and burned by white rioters. In a span of fewer than twenty-four hours, thirty-five city blocks were charred, over eight hundred people were treated for injuries, and historians have estimated that somewhere between one hundred and three hundred lives were lost. "
10 " Real pain existed there. Not only the pain of pregnancy, but the pain of denying it. That type of denial took work. "
― Randi Pink , Girls Like Us
11 " Izella shook her thoughts away again, trying to reorganize herself into the sister with the right answer. Best thing for everybody was no baby. No baby for Evangelist to know about, no baby to send Walter into the shakes, no baby to split Ola from a girl into a mama. "
12 " A fly on the wall would’ve thought it strange--a daughter telling her mother she’s pregnant and the mother quietly taking it in. But this is how they were. It had always been the two of them quietly against the whole world. While her horrible father fought for his own political photo ops, they were there like this together. Always. "
13 " Sometimes you gotta let things be. Set it all loose or else you lose yourself.” Missippi reached for Izella’s hand. “You got folks loving you that you don’t even know are there. "
14 " but when I Googled Latoya, I didn’t find any victoriousness, only black women looking like Damn, why did they have to name me Latoya? "
15 " He was a loyal friend with a bad attitude like Kanye West. "
16 " I was an essential piece. We were family, and in that rare moment, none of us cared what anyone outside the car thought. "
17 " I consulted what I considered to be the handbooks of white females everywhere: Cosmo, Seventeen, and Teen Vogue. "
18 " Isaiah was not one man, but two—himself and his black shadow—following him, sometimes pestering him, to utilize his own ingenuity in order to navigate the world made complicated by the color of his skin. "
19 " Anything but black, Lord, anything but black, never once considering what I was sacrificing in praying that prayer. "
