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“(If I could go back in time and slap all of the idiocy out of my mouth, I would be a busy time traveler.)”
― Issa Rae, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

“As Ralph Ellison once posited, we’re invisible to them. We’re simply not on their radar. As long as the people who are in charge aren’t us, things will never change.”
― Issa Rae, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

“The smell of Black & Milds evokes a nostalgia for the hoodrat childhood of which I was robbed.”
― Issa Rae, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

“If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City