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Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

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“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.”

“The terrible danger of our time consists in the fact that ours is a cut-flower civilization. Beautiful as cut flowers may be, and much as we may use our ingenuity to keep them looking fresh for a while, they will eventually die, and they die because they are severed from their sustaining roots. We are trying to maintain the dignity of the individual apart from the deep faith that every man is made in God's image and is therefore precious in God's eyes.”