I look at the stars again. Daddy says he named me Starr because I was his light in the darkness. I need some light in my own darkness right about now.
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I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might not have known about.
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Les au revoir font encore plus de mal quand l'autre est déjà parti.
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It would be easy to quit if it was just about me, Khalil, that night, and that cop. it's about way more than that though. It's about It's about Seven. Sekani. Devante. It's also about Oscar. Aiyana. Trayvon. Rekia. Michael. Eric. Tamir. John. Ezell. Sandra. Freddie. Alton. Philando. It's even about that little boy in 1955 who nobody recognized at first- Emmett. The messed-up part? There are so many more.
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When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.
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As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South.
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