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I really love the concept of this story and wish it was executed with more layers and nuance and less of the author’s personal feelings" — 13 hours, 10 min ago
"My friend Chinelo (@interestedinblackbooks) recently told me that a pet peeve of hers when it comes to books is when the author is too loud — when you can tell it’s their voice, their opinions in the pages and I wasn’t sure what she meant until now
I really love the concept of this story and wish it was executed with more layers and nuance and less of the author’s personal feelings" — 13 hours, 10 min ago
“In our fear, we treat others’ identities as if they are something that they are doing to us and not something that just exists.”
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“The thing about shame is that it eats at you until it fully consumes you. You no longer need people telling you to not dress like that; you already do it to yourself. You no longer need your family telling you to be quiet; you already do it to yourself. You edit yourself and at some point, it becomes so normal that you can’t even tell that you’re doing it.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
“So willing — eager, almost — to shed our rich culture for the cheap thrill of being seen as American. Thinking that if one day they accumulated enough stuff, if they learned to act the right way, they could be seen as the same. And because of course, white America will never see them as equal, they die owning lots of things, but having lost themselves.”
― Olga Dies Dreaming
― Olga Dies Dreaming
“There’s so much in this great big world that you don’t have a single ounce of control over. Guess the sooner you learn that, the sooner you’ll have one less heartbreak in your life.”
― Red at the Bone
― Red at the Bone
“She nursed the child because she was supposed to feel some deep electric connectedness to her and didn’t. So she gave her what she had — her body.”
― Red at the Bone
― Red at the Bone
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