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“In today’s America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we’re broken or we’re healed from that brokenness. But that’s not how healing operates, and it’s almost never how human growth works. More often, healing and growth take place on a continuum, with innumerable points between utter brokenness and total health.”
― My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
― My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
“You leave the analyst's office aware of your singularity and your solitude alike. It's you who lives in the prison of your skin. No one gets the afterglow they want. Everyone dies alone. Analysis is a process. The process is a slow procession. It is a cortège.”
― Hausfrau
― Hausfrau
“and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
“We could not get out. The ground we walked was trip-wired. The air we breathed was toxic. The water stunted our growth. We could not get out. A year after I watched the boy with the small eyes pull out a gun, my father beat me for letting another boy steal from me. Two years later, he beat me for threatening my ninth-grade teacher. Not being violent enough could cost me my body. Being too violent could cost me my body. We could not get out.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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