After school Quote by Polo G

We should open the conversation of mental health and start discussing it in classrooms, and among each other. Especially in the black community -…

— Jordyn Woods

Children in urban communities suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome in higher proportions than veterans, and they need therapeutic outlets, which arts and drama has…

— Aja Brown

I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized.

— Nicole Byer

There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down…

— Daniel Kaluuya

This stereotype that Black and brown boys and girls are dangerous or threatening has normalized systems of trauma: the cradle to prison pipeline, foster…

— Cori Bush

Something that people talk about a lot in the Black community is how Black women hold it up, basically, and Black women don't get…

— Nia DaCosta

My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing…

— Wangechi Mutu

A lot of times, especially in the black community, where therapy is talked about, it's like, 'Just go to church.'

— Yvonne Orji

One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you have kids…

— Scott Stossel

“What would the black community be if we taught our children love, family values, self-respect, nonviolence, how to manage money, how to speak up…

— Lashaunda K. Jackson-Williams

I think at people's core, everybody's just looking to be healed inside because we all coming with childhood trauma, especially people of color.

— Kirk Franklin

Blackfeet have our own versions of the traumatic history that we collectively still feel. And it's just an ethos in my people that if…

— Lily Gladstone