Much has been made of the losers who voted from Trump. I do not mean that disparagingly, but descriptively, as the Trump voter is generally typed as … - Tressie McMillan Cottom

Perhaps our planet is for learning to appreciate the extraordinary wonder of life that surrounds even our suffering, and to say Yes, if through the thickest of tears. — Alice Walker, from the foreword to Zora Neale
Hurston’s Barracoon

The structural incompetence of black women is how we were made into property makers without any rights to property during slavery;

...I had also parsed that there was something powerful about blondness, thinness, flatness, and gaps between thighs. And that power was the context against which all others defined themselves... beauty isn’t actually what you look like; beauty is the preference that reproduce the existing social order.