Today's QQs +

"You see, when you are colored, everyone is always looking for your faults. If you are going to make it, you have to be entirely honest, clean, brilliant and so on. Because if you slip up once, the white folks will say to each other, "See, what'd I tell you." So you don't have to be as good as white people, you have to be better or the best. When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. "
- said by Bessie Delany, in Having Our Say, written by Sarah L. Delany (Sadie) and A. Elizabeth Delany (Bessie) with Amy Hill

"This Jim Crow mess was pure foolishness. It's not law anymore, but it's still in some people's hearts. I just laugh it off, child. I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in life. "
-Sadie Delany, age 105

"I'm alive out of sheer determination, honey! Sometimes I think it's my meanness that keeps me going."
-Bessie Delany, age 103

Guess what I read today?

This book hit on an issue I've been thinking about a lot. You know what, I realize that racism doesn't affect me, but it still makes me angry. I live in my nice little suburban WHITE town, and I go to my nice little WHITE high school. Seriously, there's, like, 10 black students in the whole school! And it makes me angry that my neighbors think it's okay to stereotype black people into one group. Racism may not be as loud as it was when the Delany sisters grew up, but many carry it in their hearts. I can't imagine what it would be like to live with racism all your life. To have someone just look at you, and then immediately discard you. It's gotta be so hard. And something that I run into a lot more is stereotyping. It's really easy to just slap a label on someone and then forget about them, but it's not cool. Stereotyping people is something I have to keep reminding myself about...It seems like I'm always fighting myself on those.

so thanks for reading this, guys, if you got all the way to the bottom...lol....

chica bonita