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“Caring for myself is one of the ways I know I can make my mother proud.”

Care Mother Grief

Book:Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

“Women are described as the “emotional” gender, but I’ve found that women, Black women in particular, are very skilled at bearing feelings and suffering in silence. Black women have been doing it since we arrived on the shores in 1619. We swallow the pain of racism. We swallow the micro aggressions we experience at the office. We swallow the indignity that we feel when white women touch our hair. We swallow the fear and anxiety that comes with being wives, daughter,s and mothers to Black men and boys.”

Grief Dignity Racism In America

Book:Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

“I couldn’t see a life lived without her. I couldn’t envision a world in which she ceased to exist.”

Death Mother Grief Anticipatory Grief

Book:Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

“The stability I had previously taken for granted was replaced by the pain that arrives when you learn that someone you love is going to die. It was a deep sense of foreboding, a bodily knowledge of things to come that you would do just about anything to avoid.”

Death Grief Anticipatory Grief

Book:Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

“The rallying cry Black Lives Matter is fundamentally rooted in an absence of love. I thought about how much I love being Black and how much grief, anxiety, and fear being Black sometimes brings.”

Love Grief Racism

Book:Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

“Black women are taught to move through this country not only bearing the regular indignities and slights that come with preconceived notion of Black women, but also the scars of our history.”

Grief Racism In America

Book:Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

“You don’t get over love. Loving someone and being loved in return leaves an indelible imprint on your brain. It cannot be erased, because love can’t be taken away, can’t be taken back, even if our person is no longer with us in this world.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

“You are adapting to life without someone you love. You will make adjustments for your loss for the rest of your life.”

Life Loss Grief

Book:Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss