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When I began writing The Bluest Eye, I was interested in something else. Not resistance to the contempt of others, ways to deflect it, but the far more tragic and disabling consequences of accepting rejection as legitimate, as self-evident.
“How were they to know the moments that would define them?”
― A Place for Us
― A Place for Us
“Once your board has been wiped clean, you want to be very deliberate about what you put on it.”
― Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
― Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
“To put the gap in stark racial terms, in America in 2013, the average wealth per household was $81,000. But averages have highs and lows. When you disaggregate the numbers, white families average $142,000 in wealth, Latinos come in at $13,700, and black families bring up the rear at $11,000.”
― Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
― Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
“It’s frustrating to realize we’re taught to be humble in a way that men are not.”
― Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
― Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
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