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Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen.
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“Anchored in unknowing, I yearn to rise out of the restlessness of my own forms of helplessness inside a structure that constricts possibilities.”
― Just Us: An American Conversation
― Just Us: An American Conversation
“This is not an excuse, just an explanation.”
― An American Marriage
― An American Marriage
“Her kind of security, because it's not merely monetary, is atmospheric and therefore is not transferable. It's what reigns invisible behind the term "white.”
― Just Us: An American Conversation
― Just Us: An American Conversation
“Turns out the sadness that silence from the person you love brings can be temporarily erased by the dull thrill of attention from strangers.”
― Queenie
― Queenie
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