Dorrit

“Not being able to deal with your life is humiliating. It makes you feel weak. And if you’re African-American and female, not only are you expected to be resilient enough to just take the hits and keep going, but if you can’t, you’re a Black Bitch with an Attitude. You’re not mentally ill; you’re ghetto.”
― Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

“Whatever appeals to the white working class is ennobled. What appeals to black workers, and all others outside the tribe, is dastardly identitarianism. All politics are identity politics - except the politics of white people, the politics of the blood heirloom.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“Oh, here’s something fun—I don’t care what diet you’re on or what herbal supplements you take. If they work for you, I’m happy. I don’t know if it’s something about me, or if people walk around just dispensing unfounded medical advice to everyone they’ve ever met with a health issue, but more often than I’m comfortable with, some asshole with a high school diploma wants to sit me down and talk at me about how they can cure my wretched-gut disease.”
― Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

“I'm chasing after that Holy Shit Effect.”
― Kevin Hart, I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons