“The key to moving forward is what we do with our discomfort. We can use it as a door out—blame the messenger and disregard the message. Or we can use it as a door in by asking, Why does this unsettle me? What would it mean for me if this were true?”
― White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
― White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
“In today’s America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we’re broken or we’re healed from that brokenness. But that’s not how healing operates, and it’s almost never how human growth works. More often, healing and growth take place on a continuum, with innumerable points between utter brokenness and total health.”
― My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
― My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
“As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.”
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.”
― Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
― Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
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