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“We cannot come together if we do not recognize our differences first. These differences are best articulated when women of color occupy the center of the discourse while white women remain silent, actively listen, and do not try to reinforce supremacy by inserting themselves in the middle of the discussion.”
― This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America – The New York Times Bestseller: Incisive Cultural Criticism on Race and Gender
― This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America – The New York Times Bestseller: Incisive Cultural Criticism on Race and Gender
“When I talk about owning eloquent rage as your superpower, it comes with the clear caveat that not everyone is worth your time or your rage.”
― Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
― Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
“If you say fuck the patriarchy but you don’t ride for other women, then it might be more true that the patriarchy has fucked you, seducing you with the belief that men care more about your well-being than women do. It isn’t true.”
― Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
― Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“In my experience, white people are the only ones who purport to advance equality through the erasure or rejection of marginalized people’s identities, which signals to me that they have fooled themselves into believing that they are “unraced.” This belief is false, because it is based on the idea that whiteness is the human standard and that furthermore, by virtue of them being white, they are the arbiters of humanity.”
― This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America – The New York Times Bestseller: Incisive Cultural Criticism on Race and Gender
― This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America – The New York Times Bestseller: Incisive Cultural Criticism on Race and Gender
Dovile’s 2024 Year in Books
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