Sheilah Hayden
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thread 1/13
White people embrace narratives about forgiveness, so they can pretend the world is a fairer place than it actually is and that racism is merely a vestige of a painful past instead of this indelible part of our present.
Roxanne Gay #SundaySentence #BlackHistoryMonth
11:29 AM - Feb 04, 2024 (Edited)
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 2/13
The romance of treason never occurred to us for the brutally simple reason that you can't betray a country you don't have.

James Baldwin
#SundaySentence #BlackHistoryMonth
11:30 AM - Feb 04, 2024
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 3/13
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.

bell hooks #SundaySentence #BlackHistoryMonth
11:32 AM - Feb 04, 2024
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 4/13
I assign myself no rank or any limit and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times.

Ralph Ellison
#SundaySentence #BlackHistoryMonth
11:33 AM - Feb 04, 2024
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 5/13
The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.

Martin Luther King III
#SundaySentence #BlackHistoryMonth
11:34 AM - Feb 04, 2024
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 6/13
As Black women, our fight has always been — and continues to be — about the human right to control our body, our work and our community.

Marcela Howell
#SuundaySentence #BlackHistoryMonth
11:35 AM - Feb 04, 2024
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 7/13
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.

Toni Morrison
#SundaySentence #BlackHistoryMonth
11:37 AM - Feb 04, 2024
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 8/13
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Richard Wright #SundaySentence #BlackHistoryMonth
11:38 AM - Feb 04, 2024
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 9/13
He knew far more about you than a White policeman could and you were without defenses before this Black brother in uniform whose entire reason for breathing seemed to be his hope to offer proof that, though he was Black, he was not Black like you.
James Baldwin #SundaySentence
11:39 AM - Feb 04, 2024
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 10/13
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Ralph Ellison #SundaySentence
11:40 AM - Feb 04, 2024
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 11/13
White feelings should never be held in higher regard than Black lives.
Rachel Cargle
#SundaySentence
11:42 AM - Feb 04, 2024 (Edited)
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 12/13
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass #SundaySentence #BlackHistoryMonth
11:45 AM - Feb 04, 2024
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Sheilah Hayden
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thread 13/13
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot
#SundaySentence #BlackHistoryMonth
11:47 AM - Feb 04, 2024
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