My grandmother and my two aunts were an exhibition in resilience and resourcefulness and black womanhood. They rarely talked about the unfairness of the world with the words that I use now with my social justice friends, words like "intersectionality" and "equality", "oppression", and "discrimination". They didn't discuss those things because they were too busy living it, navigating it, surviving it. Janet Mock
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This quote captures the resiliency and resourcefulness of the women in my family. They often did not complain about the unfairness of the world because they were too busy living it, navigating it, surviving it. Having to do so while being black women made them resilient.

Source: Redefining Realness: My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love So Much More

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