Wisdom

Since those who seek to despoil study, you have to be a student too….. The Montgomery Bus Boycott teaches something deeper than “Rosa Parks sat down and people got mad.” …

Some patterns are so familiar that our bodies recognize them before our mouths can explain them. A room gets quiet. A person says, “That never happened.” A politician says, “It …

updated from June 22, 2025 Nina Simone’s song, “Four Women,” is powerful because each woman has been made into someone else’s story. Aunt Sarah is expected to carry pain. Saffronia …

“Being asked to ignore degradation is not an invitation to be strong. It is an invitation to disappear. And you were never meant to disappear.” For Survivors, language is never …

updated from September 20, 2025 Proverbs 12:19 puts it this way….. “Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.” When victims of abuse summon the courage …

“It is a peculiar cruelty to demand extraordinary proof from those who have endured ordinary injustice.” My pain does not require cross-examination to be real.My humanity is not pending approval. …

In our society we underestimate intuition in favor of logic. I like logic. I also like intuition and fact-based pattern recognition.   From Youtube summary: This animated summary explains how …

We close this month with clear eyes. Not just looking back, but looking forward with intention. We honor how far women have come. We refuse to be quiet about how …

Malcolm X said : “A lie told once is questioned. A lie repeated often enough becomes accepted. And once it becomes ‘common sense,’ people stop investigating it. That is how …

  “I’ve never seen or heard of anything like this!”   Black people have been telling the truth about violence for a long time. Not for attention. Not for spectacle. …