(Timothy Greenfield-Sanders/Magnolia Pictures)

“If you are free, you need to free somebody else…” Toni Morrison

Betty Abeng

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Toni Morrison was interviewed by Oprah Magazine in 2003 and said,

“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”

Because of you many of us are free and hopefully because of us and thanks to platforms such as Medium we too may just set others free.

And so very often I would strike a pose in an attempt to replicate the picture above. I have to admit that it felt like a “freedom pose”. I was finally feeling somewhat free.

Free to express myself, free to explore the world and free to Be.Loved.

RIP Queen and thank you.

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Betty Abeng

African Woman reflecting on her Exile|| Aspiring Change Agent|| I can also be found here https://bizzeebizz.com