my mother 
                   is learning to play
all the things she couldn’t play 

my mother
                  is learning to say
all the things she couldn’t say 

and i 
         am witness 
to this glorious glorious woman 

whatever we make 
we make together 

       i am witness 

While the liberal is part of the oppressor, he is the most powerless segment within that group. Therefore when he seeks to talk about change, he always confronts the oppressed rather than the oppressor. He does not seek to influence the oppressor, he seeks to influence the oppressed.
— Read on redsails.org/the-pitfalls-of-liberalism/

An excerpt from Lucinda Williams’s memoir “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You,” about being in love with the poet Frank Stanford, and about his suicide.
— Read on www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-poet-who-became-my-muse

I argue that Blackness is a “structural location” peculiar to the intersection of capitalist exploitation and anti-Black racialization.
— Read on caribbeanphilosophy.org/blog/structural-location-of-blackness