Jasmine

“We suffer from the condition of being addressable. Our emotional openness, she adds, is carried by our addressability. Language navigates this.”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

“We were free. We were unlimited. We didn’t yet know or understand race and class and all the intersections between them, so we were not yet black, at least not on the inside. Our psyches were still free from the troubles of the world.”
― Echo Brown, Black Girl Unlimited

“Fenty later recalled Jay-Z saying, ‘There’s only two ways out. Out the door’ ”—if she signed the contract—“ ‘or through this window’ ” if she didn’t. Was that a threat? “It was very flattering.” She left through the door.”
― John Seabrook, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

“When the people with power in a society see a portion of the populace as inferior and undeserving, their definition of “the public” becomes conditional. It’s often unconscious, but their perception of the Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they’ll tear apart the web that supports everyone, including them. Public goods, in other words, are only for the public we perceive to be good.”
― Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together