Very often many of us have been asked to try to be respectable so that we don't reinforce the "angry black woman stereotype" and I want to say in this book: "Let's say that we're mad as hell. Let's own the truth of that and then let's see it as a thing that actually strengthens us and if we embrace it can become a superpower."

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