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There [was] a lot of rage, a lot of pain, a lot of cynicism. But her (Garza's) post resonated with me, for a number of reasons. I think it being explicitly black, it being a message rooted in love, and it just felt very hopeful.

— Opal Tometi

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Source: quoted in How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next, By Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone (16 June 2020)
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