“I had never met anyone like Sam before. His life revealed to me that if you are poor, and black, with an African surname and a community of poor, black immigrants around you, parents who are not equipped to guide you, a school which expects nothing from you, except a life of crime or low-paid, unskilled labour – because of your race and class – and older children who offer you quick solutions to your safety, by joining gangs, then becoming a lawyer, say, takes something special.”
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― Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
“You your best thing, Sethe. You are.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“The problem isn’t that we search for truth; the problem is that we become obsessed with our belief that we hold the truth, and we destroy entire cultures in the process.”
― Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
― Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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