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A lifetime of love and friendship lost tonight in Cicely’s effort to defend the prison she has built for herself.
“What I ultimately learned, though, is that these weren't slips or blunders-a simple lack of awareness. White feminism is an ideology; it has completely different priorities, goals, and strategies for achieving gender equality: personalized autonomy, individual wealth, perpetual self-optimization, and supremacy. It's a practice and a way of seeing gender equality that has it's own ideals and principles, much like racism or hetero sexism or patriarchy.”
― White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
― White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
“The virtual extinction of the French expeditionary force, which had been scheduled to proceed to New Orleans after dispatching the blacks of Santo Domingo, was the immediate cause of Napoleon's decision to cut his losses in the Western Hemisphere. In that sense, Jefferson was not only extraordinarily lucky but also beholden to historical forces that he had actually opposed.”
― American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
― American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
“The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.”
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