“All my life I’d heard people tell their black boys and black girls to “be twice as good,” which is to say “accept half as much.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Hate gives identity. The nigger, the fag, the bitch illuminate the border, illuminate what we ostensibly are not, illuminate the Dream of being white, of being a Man. We name the hated strangers and are thus confirmed in the tribe.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“And still I urge you to struggle. Struggle for the memory of your ancestors. Struggle for wisdom. Struggle for the warmth of The Mecca. Struggle for your grandmother and grandfather, for your name. But do not struggle for the Dreamers. Hope for them. Pray for them, if you are so moved. But do not pin your struggle on their conversion. The Dreamers will have to learn to struggle themselves, to understand that the field for their Dream, the stage where they have painted themselves white, is the deathbed of us all.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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