Sarah AF

“She is selling herself by the inch. The gentlemen all say you are advising her. She wants a present in cash for every advance above her knee.'
'Not like you, Mary. One push backwards and, good girl, here's your fourpence.'
'Well. You know. If king are doing the pushing." She laughs. "Anne has very long legs. By the time he comes to her secret part he will be bankrupt. The French wars will be cheap, in comparison.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“White supremacy encourages the people it benefits to create their own parallel universe, their own set of facts and explanations about the existence of and prevalence of racism. Even as white people insist that "no one really knows what happened", they can immediately share an explanation that eases their anxiety and shame.”
― Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

“They speak of 'the football season', but as far as I am aware the football season takes an entire calendar year to go full cycle. I believe there might be a day somewhere in early July, every other year, where football is not happening. One that day there is twenty-four hours of programming in which the men in front of the green screens discuss how much they can't wait to have football back.”
― Laura Lexx, Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football's Most Sensible Heartthrob

“Patiently educating a clueless white person about race is draining. It takes all your powers of persuasion. Because it’s more than a chat about race. It’s ontological. It’s like explaining to a person why you exist, or why you feel pain, or why your reality is distinct from their reality. Except it’s even trickier than that. Because the person has all of Western history, politics, literature, and mass culture on their side, proving that you don’t exist.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning