Bee Reads

“acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“but these leaders traffic in respectability politics—the idea that if black (or other marginalized) people simply behave in “culturally approved” ways, if we mimic the dominant culture, it will be more difficult to suffer the effects of racism.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“Respectability politics completely overlook institutional racism and the ways in which the education system, the social welfare system, and the justice system only reinforce many of the problems the black community faces.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.”
― Sharma Taylor, What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones