Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
(via alunit)The truth is, black women and women of color are the ones historically most dismissed, pushed aside in the history of American literature and poetics. But they have always been giants, to me. We’re reaching a point, or we’re at a point, where people are just going to have to get comfortable with acknowledging their greatness. Their star is literally too bright to ignore, at this point. Either bathe happily in the light, or find a whole new island.
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, interviewed for Puerto del Sol’s Black Voices Series (via bostonpoetryslam)