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“Note, if you are a white person in this situation, do not think that just because you may not be aware of your racial identity at the time that you did not bring race to your experience of the situation as well. We are all products of a racialized society, and it affects everything we bring to our interactions.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“People have a right to think things will change. I allowed myself that much.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries: A Memoir

“When my life was new, I understood in my bones how little it mattered what anybody else was doing, or what they thought about what I was doing. I believed my bones then.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter