The growing sentiment that I'm hearing right now from people who are doing the work of creating change, challenging their own comfort zones, and fighting for justice, is that they just can't help but feel angry all the time. In fact, at times, it seems as if they are consumed by it. Though it is exhausting and they would like a break from this new found constant boil of anger, in the back of their minds they're wondering "But if I'm not angry about what's happening in the world, then who will be?" It's an age-old question those who have been angry about racism have been asking themselves for generations: "Why aren't more people outraged by this?"
-- Andrea Krystal, Can Black People Grow Hair?, p. 92-93
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