Wayne Dyer said, "Do not measure the power of faith by the length of your problem. A dark room may have been dark for 50 yrs. But when you turn on a light, the darkness does not take 50 years to leave." Just because a problem has persisted does not mean it will take the same amount of time to fix it. Once you find the light switch, the darkness dissipates in an instant.
I feel like the Black experience is an improvised dance of stumbling around in the dark to find the light switch, turning it on, only for someone to unscrew the light bulb and throw it out the window. A new light bulb goes in, and then someone smashes the switch and rips out the wires. Someone lights a candle, then someone stomps it into a wax puddle. Someone strikes a match, and the match is doused in water. And the voice of darkness is like, 'Why don't you give up?!' Because light is our nature. And someone before me kept the light on long enough for me to see the room for what it was, not what it was hiding. We burn incense, strike a match, or open our mouths and let the shining fire pour out.
Darkness may resist, but luminosity persists. And the radiance does not fight. Its mere existence extinguishes the gloom.
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