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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings associated with whiteness, even in the face of clear threats to mortality or to common sense.”
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
― Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
“I just start kissing them. Just kiss. I don't even wait. "I kissed her," Brock said. "And you didn't ask her for permission before you kissed her, did you," my DA said. "No," Brock said. I moved on her like a bitch. "I kissed her cheek and ear," Brock said "I touched her breasts. I moved her dress down." Grab 'em by the pussy. "I took off her underwear...and then I fingered her." I did try to fuck her. We live in a time where it has become difficult to distinguish between the President's words and that of a nineteen-year-old assailant.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Victims are often, automatically, accused of lying. But when a perpetrator is exposed of lying, the stigma doesn't stick. Why is it that we're wary of victims making false accusations, but rarely consider how many men have blatantly lied about, downplayed, or manipulated others to cover their own actons?”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
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