“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive &forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty &abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.” -Bell Hooks
Let’s just sit with this for a minute. It took until 1989 for the first Black woman director to helm a film released by a major movie studio. 1989. https://t.co/mBb7I7n5e1