As you come to know the seriousness of our situation—the war, the racism, the poverty in the world—you come to realize that it is not going to be changed just by words or demonstrations. It’s a question of risking your life. It’s a question of living your life in drastically different ways.
She said there were two people you had to be true to—those people who came before you and those people who came after you.
Gayl Jones, Eva’s Man