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Maybe it’s just part of my personality or my DNA or something—to worry forever about everything.
“As for now, it must be said that the process of washing the disparate tribes white, the elevation of the belief in being white, was not achieved through wine tastings and ice cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty, labor, and land; through the flaying of backs; the chaining of limbs; the strangling of dissidents; the destruction of families; the rape of mothers; the sale of children; and various other acts meant, first and foremost, to deny you and me the right to secure and govern our own bodies.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“But maybe this isn’t how life works. Maybe it’s all about people coming into your life for a little while and you take what they give you and use it on your next friendship or relationship. And if you’re lucky, maybe some people pop back in after you thought they were gone for good.”
― What If It's Us
― What If It's Us
“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“Unworthy boys make a lot of noise”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin Luther King Jr. and now it's done.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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