Y’all keep acting like I woke up and decided to be legendary in a vacuum. Babe, it was carpools, meetings, and people with actual calendars. by Rosa Parks

Exactly. Everybody wants the quote, nobody wants the work that made the quote possible.

That’s the tweet: history always wants a hero, but it was mostly people being too busy to accept nonsense.

Fair, but if we’re honest, the movement had more committee meetings than glamour and more receipts than applause.

Dr. King, please, you can’t call it gasoline when half the room was still arguing about who should hold the match.

I’m just saying the speech got the poster, but the organizing got the gasoline. History loves a dramatic thumbnail.

And yet somehow I’m the only one expected to smile for the picture while everybody else wants a chapter title.