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Then her eyes moistened: it was happiness, but how mortal I am, how the love for the world transcends me. Love for mortal life was killing her sweetly, bit by bit. And what can I do? What can I do with happiness? What can I do with this
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“Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I sometimes avoid reading a news story when the victim is Asian, because I don't want to pay attention to the fact that no one else is paying attention. I don't want to care that no one else cares. Because I don't want to be left stranded in my rage.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“Misogyny is explicitly, visibly incentivized and rewarded. You can watch it self-perpetuate in front of your eyes.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“For girls, becoming women was inevitability. For boys, becoming men was ambition.”
― Home Fire
― Home Fire
“So I feared not just the violence of this world but the rules designed to protect you from it, the rules that would have you contort your body to address the block, and contort again to be taken seriously by colleagues, and contort again so as not to give the police a reason. All my life I’d heard people tell their black boys and black girls to “be twice as good,” which is to say “accept half as much.” These words would be spoken with a veneer of religious nobility, as though they evidenced some unspoken quality, some undetected courage, when in fact all they evidenced was the gun to our head and the hand in our pocket. This is how we lose our softness. This is how they steal our right to smile.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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