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“They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.”
Stephanie Dray“They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.”
Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile“When this book is mould,And a book of manyWaiting to be soldFor a casual penny,In a little open case,In a street unclean and cluttered,Where a heavy mud is spatteredFrom the passing drays,Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!Search the fading letters, findingSteadfast in the broken bindingAll that once was I!”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems“The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.”
Stephanie Dray, Daughters of the Nile“I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.”
Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile“He's the beating pulse of every cause dear to me.”
Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie“And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her...”
Stephanie Dray, Song of the Nile“Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved?”
Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter“But women have to give hard thought to the men we'll wind up with. Make a mistake and get a drunk, a spendthrift, a cruel man. A man who won't keep his word. ... In marriage, man and woman become one, and that one is the husband.”
Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter“Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks’ distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding how cheap a black life was for so long a time in our nation’s history?”
Philip Dray, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today”
there have been setbacks before and may be more in the future.