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hi, i'm nuri. analog + digital girl, unmainstream to the nth degree, budding creative, in the gap, audiophile, dreamer, atl native, ny transplant. this is a place where i let my fangirl flag fly a bit and decompress. a collection of the stuff i watch, read, listen to and soak in.
“Privilege is expecting that marginalized people have nothing better to do than educate you on your privilege. Please read a book.”
— Spectra Speaks (via zorascreation)
“Of course I had trepidations. Why do I have to play the mammy? But what do you do as an actor if one of the most multifaceted and rich roles you’ve ever been given is a maid in 1962 Mississippi? Do you not take the role because you feel like in some ways it’s not a good message to send to Black people? No. The message is the quality of the work. That is the greater message… As Black women, we’re always given these seemingly devastating experiences - experiences that could absolutely break us. But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as Black women is take the worst situations and create from that point.”
— Viola Davis ; Essence magazine August 2011 cover feature.
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The resolution of this case only confirms something I’ve long been taught by my foremothers: black girls are least likely to survive the adolescent experimentation with which every teen finds herself confronted. The wrong car ride, the wrong walk to the corner, the wrong party invitation, the wrong sleepover at the wrong house can get us killed.
In addition to hoping for justice, I also want this case to ingrain the following message: vigilantly guard your own safety, even among friends, even among family. There is no guarantee that they’ll do it for you.
”— stacia l. brown from her blog post, “phylicia barnes and the black girl’s burden.”
