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As a Black woman, race has always been a prominent part of my life. I have never been able to escape the fact that I am a black woman in a white supremacist country.
Introduction, So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The genocide hurts the heart of the perpetrators as well, because it is such a stark contrast to who we are as human beings, inherently collaborative, inherently community focused. And for you to kill people, that’s a wound on your heart. And so they have that generational would as well! They carry the generational wound of genocide as well. And by not reflecting on that, and by not growing from that they’re stagnant.
Raquel Ramirez, page 54, We Are the Middle of Forever
While effecting real change in our own lives as individuals and in groups is always hard, as human beings there is also often a tendency to believe this is even harder than it is (perhaps even impossible, we tell ourselves). And through that belief, we can make change harder than it already is.
page 21, True Reconciliation by Jody Wilson-Raybould
