Katherine

“the power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, “white people” would cease to exist for want of reasons.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“the process of washing the disparate tribes white, the elevation of the belief in being white, was not achieved through wine tastings and ice cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty, labor, and land; through the flaying of backs; the chaining of limbs; the strangling of dissidents; the destruction of families; the rape of mothers; the sale of children; and various other acts meant, first and foremost, to deny you and me the right to secure and govern our own bodies.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“it was only through their loud rudeness that they might feel any sense of security and power.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“The desire to come apart irrevocably will always be as strong as, if not stronger than, the drive to establish oneself.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett