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Model Home
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Maybe my mother is God, and that’s why nothing I do pleases her. Maybe my mother is God, and that’s why even though she’s never once saved me, I keep praying that this time she will.
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“It's stupid to run from pain instead of to it because pain always comes, and if I could just accept that, life would not be a constant fluctuation between numbness and fear.”
― Model Home
― Model Home
“Mama knows she is being cruel, and I know that she knows that she's being cruel, and she knows that I know, and she wants to stop, but she also wants to not stop because it feels too good to make her point.”
― Model Home
― Model Home
“Despite all the coddling denied me as a child, I never became the independent island of my mother's dreams. I'm a baby bird, chirping for anyone at all to spit food into my mouth.”
― Model Home
― Model Home
“Grief’s iron grip never weakens. You just become accustomed to its hand around your throat, moving forward but never moving on.”
― Finding Grace
― Finding Grace
“Mother forgot her own advice. She'd told me that white supremacy operates under a logic in which everything whiteness does can be rationalized
as good, and everything Blackness does can be rationalized as preternaturally evil.”
― Model Home
as good, and everything Blackness does can be rationalized as preternaturally evil.”
― Model Home
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