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“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
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“How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?”
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“If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. It is therefore realized on all sides that however ofter Persia, or Egypt, or Java, or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs.”
― 1984
― 1984
“All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.”
― Killing Rage: Ending Racism
― Killing Rage: Ending Racism
“Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.”
― Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
― Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
Debbie’s 2025 Year in Books
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66 friends
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