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If the people who were supposed to protect you played so fast and loose with your life . . . then how did you survive? Not by trusting them, that was for sure. And if you couldn’t trust them, who could you trust? All bets were off.
“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
“Why do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Take something beautiful and vandalize it with skepticism?”
― Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
"Do what?"
"Take something beautiful and vandalize it with skepticism?”
― Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
“For girls, becoming women was inevitability. For boys, becoming men was ambition.”
― Home Fire
― Home Fire
“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
“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
Sammi’s 2025 Year in Books
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