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Books took me to places I could never go otherwise. They shared the confessions of people I’d never met and lives I’d never witnessed. The emotions I could never feel, and the events I hadn’t experienced could all be found in those volumes.
“The younger cousin of the Angry Black Woman, the Angry Brown Woman is not critical: she is vitriolic. She does not disagree: she attacks. She is not confident: she is aggressive. She is not assertive: she is scary. She is, by sheer virtue of her inherent nature, permanently, well, angry—not because of anything that has been done to her, mind you, but simply because that is what she is.”
― White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
― White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
“It is the racist who creates the inferiorized.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both women and people of color and we are always seen and treated as such.”
― White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
― White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
“helplessness constitutes the essential insult of trauma, and that restitution requires the restoration of a sense of efficacy and power.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence — From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence — From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“Palestinians are not merely another nation, but a nation dispossessed by Israel’s creation.”
― Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
― Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
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