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“Mostly, I wondered what black writers weren't writing when we spent so much creative energy begging white folk to change.”
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“Our superpower, I was told since I was a child, was perseverance, the ability to survive no matter how much they took from us. I never understood how surviving was our collective superpower when white folk made sure so many of us didn't survive. And those of us who did survive practiced bending so much that breaking seemed inevitable.”
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“That’s the part I was stuck in, the part where you accept the apology because it’s easier than addressing the root of the problem,”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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“I learned you haven't read anything if you've only read something once or twice. Reading things more than twice was the reader version of revision.”
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“On the way home, I wanted to ask you if we were deserving of different kinds of liberation, different modes of memory, different policy, different practices, and different relationships to honesty. I wanted to ask you if we were also deserving of different books. I am writing a different book to you because books, for better and worse, are how we got here, and I am afraid of speaking any of this to your face.”
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