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“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both women and people of color and we are always seen and treated as such.”
― White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
― White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
“I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“A white woman may well be punished for an emotional outburst when interacting with men, but if she is engaged in a terse interaction with a woman of color and she becomes emotional, by which I mean either angry or distraught, with or without actual tears, the deeply embedded notions of gender and femininity are triggered and it is the white woman who is likely to be vindicated.”
― White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
― White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
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