Bernice Johnson Reagon
Black Women and Liberation Movement
"I came out of a tradition where those things are valued;
Where you talk about a woman with big legs and big hips and black skin.
I came out of a black community where it was all right to have hips and to be heavy. You didn't feel that people didn't like you. The values that [imply] that you must be skinny came from another culture...Those are not the values that I was given by the women who served as my model. I refuse to be judged by the values of another culture. I am a black woman, and I will stand as best I can in that imagery."
"I came out of a tradition where those things are valued;
Where you talk about a woman with big legs and big hips and black skin.
I came out of a black community where it was all right to have hips and to be heavy. You didn't feel that people didn't like you. The values that [imply] that you must be skinny came from another culture...Those are not the values that I was given by the women who served as my model. I refuse to be judged by the values of another culture. I am a black woman, and I will stand as best I can in that imagery."
Native American saying
ReplyDelete"Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand."
Dr. H. Jack Geiger
ReplyDeleteCivil Rights worker
"Of all the injuries by racism on people of color, the most corrosive is the wound within, the internalized racism that leads some victims, at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self, to embrace the values of their oppressors."