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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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Often, being a person of color in white-dominated society is like being in an abusive relationship with the world. Every day is a new little hurt, a new little dehumanization.

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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

by Reni Eddo-Lodge

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“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“I thought about the way my mind wanders, how I drift through days losing hours, forgetting to remain in my body. How they call me absentminded, forgetful. The way I am mercury spilling over surfaces—solid and liquid, here and not.”
― Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

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