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“Besides, sometimes it’s inevitable for the past to be forgotten, especially if the present is no less horrific;”
― Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

“First, for a white person to interject with what they are interested in hearing—while a woman of color is speaking—is both silencing and entitled. This move says, “What you are saying is not of interest or value to me. Rather than appreciate this rare opportunity to hear a woman of color advocate for her community, I am going to insert myself into the middle of your talk and let it be known that I want to hear something different. I am entitled to do so because my interests are more important”
― Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

“The binary makes complicity with racism and being a good person mutually exclusive.”
― Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

“Why is it that we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated--defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen