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“But what is grief, if not love persevering?”

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“what is grief but love persevering”

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“Human beings often interpret lawfulness as restriction. But in nature, lawfulness is the foundation of harmony. Without gravity, nothing would hold. Without cycles, nothing would renew. Without predictability, nothing would survive. Lawfulness is not the enemy of freedom. It is the condition for existence.”

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“But what is grief, if not love perservering”

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“His home was filled with valuables, even if he currently felt worthless.”

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“...enslaved people "were conjuring out of nothing that manhood that has been stripped away from them for four hundred years, they used the spirituals as a catalyst.”

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Book:The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

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“Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of equality and common humanity was the sustenance needed to make it through the rest of the week in a society that deemed them less than human.”

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Book:Echoes of the Struggle

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“For all of the alleged benevolence God was supposed to bestow upon us faithful servants, Black people seemed to have been skipped over for centuries. Yet don't nobody in this world love them some Jesus like Black people do. We love him so much, we created an entire genre of music and a style of dance just to augment our praise, because that's what King David did to win his favor. This belief is rooted in a religion that isn't really ours, was forced on us during slavery, reinforced White supremacy throughout the nineteeth and twentieth centuries, and, it must be said, helps to maintain White supremacy today.”

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Book:Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

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“There were Black churches in America before we even became a country. Slaves organized churches in present-day South Carolina and Georgia before they were freed, and before we as colonies broke free from the tyranny of Great Britain.”

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“Church is a wonderful place but it also at times it has represented the worst of who we are.”

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Book:The Black Family's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds

Source: The Black Family's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds

“Sometimes anger is simply exhaustion wearing a sharper mask. Sometimes it is sadness that has forgotten how to cry. Sometimes it is the heart’s last attempt to protect itself when it no longer knows how to ask for help. And sometimes it is the memory of an old wound that has mistaken the present moment for the past.”

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Book:THE SELF WAS SIMPLY IN THE WAY

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