“Once the shock of yet another violent attack settles in and our senses recalibrate, too many of us simply go back to living our lives the same way we were before.  It’s almost as if the violence was “BREAKING NEWS,” that temporarily interrupted the regularly scheduled program of our lives and once announcement ends, we go back to business as usual until the next interruption. lives the same way we were before.  It’s almost as if the violence was “BREAKING NEWS,” that temporarily interrupted the regularly scheduled program of our lives and once announcement ends, we go back to business as usual until the next interruption. “

“I’m sick and tired of being presented with a soiled Band-Aid or no aid at all for the gaping, oozing, stinking wound that is racism in America.”

“Judge Jackson’s confirmation is a communal confirmation for Black people everywhere and especially in the United States.  Black women continue to be underestimated, overlooked, oversexualized, marginalized and misunderstood.  Collectively, we work twice as hard to get half as far still having to prove that we should have access to opportunities for which we are well qualified.”

“To develop empathy for someone else, we must first see the other person as human and thus as equal.  White people must choose to recognize and care about the humanity of Black people which comes with caring about what Black people value and experience.”

“I could list thousands more Black firsts in this country as there have been many.  The pride that I feel when I hear the words “first black,” cannot be contained but my feelings are mixed because while being the first is historical, it also comes with a burden of undeserved pressure for every person who accepts the challenge.  And  it agitates me that 400 years after the first Africans, were forced to the shores of what would become the United States, Black people are still denied access into every positive opportunity that American offers.”