“When trauma becomes a part of your identity, it can be terrifying to consider who you are outside of that. The idea of living a life without dysfunction may even seem impossible. Often, you will engage in self sabotaging behavior simply because the pain is familiar.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“Many Black people have a hard time releasing trauma because society conditions us to believe that our Blackness is validated by how much suffering we've endured. We then project this belief onto one another.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com