This is an excerpt from Sisters of the YAM by Bill Hooks.

Having lived in a segregated southern black world and in an integrated world,

where black people live with and among whites,

the difference I see is that in the traditional world of

black folk experience there was and remains in some places and certainly in

many hearts a profound unshaken belief in the spiritual power of black people to transform our world and live with

integrity and oneness despite oppressive social realities. Lord step back back

take a breath

step back

refocus

step back

refocus

take a breath

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