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De Anna
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Each story has a monster in it who made them tough instead of brave, so they open their legs rather than their hearts where the folded child is tucked. —Toni Morrison
“Old measures of health not only have failed to improve significantly but have stayed the same: some have even worsened. Mainstream newspapers and magazines often report disease in an ethnocentric manner that shrouds its true cost among African Americans. For example, despite the heavy emphasis on genetic ailments among blacks, fewer than 0.5 percent of black deaths—that’s less than one death in two hundred—can be attributed to hereditary disorders such as sickle-cell anemia. A closer look at the troubling numbers reveals that blacks are dying not of exotic, incurable, poorly understood illnesses nor of genetic diseases that target only them, but rather from common ailments that are more often prevented and treated among whites than among blacks.”
― Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
― Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
“Social psychologist Susan Fiske writes,“It is a simple principle: People pay attention to those who control their outcomes. In an effort to predict and possibly influence what is going to happen to them, people gather information about those with power.”11”
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
“You know Harpo and Sofia baby girl real sick? he say. Naw, I didn’t, I say. I point to Henrietta in the crowd. There she is over there, I say. She look just fine. Yeah, she look fine, he say, but she got some kind of blood disease. Blood sort of clot up in her veins every once in a while, make her sick as a dog. I don’t think she gon make it, he say.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn’t hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“...interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. The process of interest discovery can be messy, serendipitous, and inefficient. This is because you can't really predict with certainty what will capture your attention and what won't...Without experimenting, you can't figure out which interests will stick, and which won't.”
― Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
― Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
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