“The profound love for America's ideals should unite all who call it home, of every color - and yet America has lied to her white children for centuries, offering them songs about freedom instead of the liberation of truth.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
“He is slippery like the cold side of a cliff. And layered, like striated bands of erosion, green and white and rust-colored lash-marks of the sea. Each time she thinks she knows him, the water level lowers, and another shade is revealed.”
― Lady Macbeth
― Lady Macbeth
“And there is nothing more dangerous than a creature who pretends to be one thing and is in truth another.”
― Lady Macbeth
― Lady Macbeth
“I’ve always known that laws are merely expressions of a society’s dominant beliefs. It’s the beliefs that must shift in order for outcomes to change.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
“The female body was particularly absorbent when it came to shame. If you wrung out any woman’s body, you would discover it was soaked in shame.”
― When We Lost Our Heads
― When We Lost Our Heads
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