Harriet Jacobs taught me about freedom
Ida B. Wells taught me about radical truth telling
Zora Neale Hurston taught me about the reclamation of our labor
Ella Baker taught me why we should listen to young people
Fannie Lou Hamer taught me to be unrespectable
Shirley Chisholm taught me to hold whiteness accountable
Toni Morrison taught me that Black women are powerful
The Combahee River collective taught me about identity politics
Audre Lorde taught me about solidarity as self-care
Angela Davis taught me to be an anti-racist abolitionist
Bell Hooks taught me how to love expansively.