“Our endurance should not be confused with transformation. it is simply not enough to offer us surface platitudes as “don’t give up” and “it gets better” . Black women are so often characterized as angry without taking into consideration the sheer amount of violence we experience.  

I am angry and there are reasons.

Our anger and our sadness, our pain are the product of a system that work so diligently to erase us. Low self esteem, lack of hope are actually reasonable responses to unreasonably depressing circumstances. It doesn’t get better unless we do something about it.”

I seriously wanted to quote the entire sixteen minutes.