Happiness can be found within ourselves; it is “growth in peace.”
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How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y.
Clifton’s poems owe a great deal to oral tradition. Her work is wonderfully musical and benefits greatly from being read aloud: “It is hard to remain human on a day/ when birds perch weeping/ in the trees and the squirrel eyes/ do not look away but the dog ones do/ in pity.
Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.
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