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“I’m sorry that I wasn’t always good to you. But more than anyone, anything, ever, I loved you. Do you know that I loved you?” Loved. Past tense. He’s not yet dead, and already, you are in the in past tense. Tonight, or possibly tomorrow.
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“For girls, becoming women was inevitability. For boys, becoming men was ambition.”
― Home Fire
― Home Fire
“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
“The [bird's] nest with its streamers was a final unbidden touch: It was what human hands had not brought to the building, and could not remove. It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: It had been complicated, and thereby perfected, by what time had done to it.”
― The Invisible Bridge
― The Invisible Bridge
“White America” is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. Sometimes this power is direct (lynching), and sometimes it is insidious (redlining). But however it appears, the power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, “white people” would cease to exist for want of reasons.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“For so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. But this has never been an option because the Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made from our bodies.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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