“My education, my lived experience, and my ancestors qualify me, authorize me, and amplify me.” ebonyjanice moore wrote this in her book All the Black Girl Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance.
For years I have referred to myself as a womanist and everyday this proclamation rings more true for me. It resonates exponentially not because it becomes more true over time, but because I am becoming more and more intimate with this omnipresent, timeless truth.
Education is a privilege, life experience is a privilege, communion with ancestors is a privilege. But the key to accessing these privileges is not money, institutions, a passport, or some top secret ritual. The only price we must pay is presence, association, stillness just still enough for mind, body, and spirit to align and intertwine.
Signed,
N.A.
Signed, N.A. 