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“The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery. Virtue cannot prevail among the white people, by its destruction among the black people, who form a part of the whole community. It is evident that the white and black “must fall or flourish together.” In the light of this great truth, laws ought to be enacted, and institutions established — all distinctions, founded on complexion, ought to be repealed, repudiated, and forever abolished — and every right, privilege, and immunity, now enjoyed by the white man, ought to be as freely granted to the man of color.”
― Frederick Douglass

“The details are boring and some of them are just mine, but at the end of it, we were a couple again. I don't even think of it as getting back together because it didn't feel like a reconvening of the old relationship. It was a new one.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“If Jesus were alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Armageddon in Retrospect

“Dominique guessed her own sexual preferences from puberty, wisely kept them to herself, unsure how her friends or family would react, not wanting to be a social outcast

she tried boys a couple of times

they enjoyed it

she endured it”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other