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“Your life is here, now. You’re not about to live a tracing-paper copy of it.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“Yet again, the Queen’s inability to live without her male favourites was in evidence. As usual, she apportioned all blame to the female party.”
― Elizabeth's Rival
― Elizabeth's Rival
“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.”
― Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football's Most Sensible Heartthrob
― Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football's Most Sensible Heartthrob
“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.”
― The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
― The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
“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.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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