Emre

“I’ll tell you what surprises me.”
“Is it my eyes? Is it my lips?”
“It’s your cat,” he said.
“I don’t have a cat.”
“That’s what surprises me.”
“You think I’m a cat person.”
“I see you with a cat, definitely. There ought to be a cat slipping along the walls.”
― Don DeLillo, Falling Man

“There’s a certain man, an archetype, he’s a model of dependability for his male friends, all the things a friend should be, an ally and confidant, lends money, gives advice, loyal and so on, but sheer hell on women. Living breathing hell. The closer a woman gets, the clearer it becomes to him that she is not one of his male friends. And the more awful it becomes for her. This is Keith. This is the man you’re going to marry.”
― Don DeLillo, Falling Man

“Uzun bir sessizlikten sonra, Düşünsenize, dedim, başparmak, ortaparmak, işaretparmağı, serçeparmak. Hepsinin adı mantıklı.
Adını bilmese de insan, öyle dermiş sanki. Belki serçeparmak değil küçük parmak denirdi. Ama öylesi de doğru. Yüzükparmağı gibi uydurma değil, sanki yüzük bir tek o parmağa takılırmış ya da yüzük icat olmadan önce o parmak yokmuş gibi.”
― Sine Ergün, Burası Tekin Değil

“People of color may also hold prejudices and discriminate against white people, but they lack the social and institutional power that transforms their prejudice and discrimination into racism; the impact of their prejudice on whites is temporary and contextual.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism