“The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it was not. But it’s a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue; I did not think of myself as black and I only became black when I came to America. When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn’t matter when you’re alone together because it’s just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, race matters. But we don’t talk about it. We don’t even tell our white partners the small things that piss us off and the things we wish they understood better, because we’re worried they will say we’re overreacting, or we’re being too sensitive. And we don’t want them to say, Look how far we’ve come, just forty years ago it would have been illegal for us to even be a couple blah blah blah, because you know what we’re thinking when they say that? We’re thinking why the fuck should it ever have been illegal anyway? But we don’t say any of this stuff. We let it pile up inside our heads and when we come to nice liberal dinners like this, we say that race doesn’t matter because that’s what we’re supposed to say, to keep our nice liberal friends comfortable. It’s true. I speak from experience.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“Because we’re always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else.”
― Heaven
― Heaven
“Aku sering berpikir pengorbanan adalah perbuatan yang egois. Ada kepentingan pribadi di situ. Kepentingan untuk meyakinkan diri bahwa kita adalah orang yang mulia.”
― Pemetik Bintang
― Pemetik Bintang
“Communism was born from a beautiful dream, the likes of which there will never be again on the face of this earth: that there would no longer be lazy men who eat their fill while others work hard and starve.”
― Beauty Is a Wound
― Beauty Is a Wound
“Menulislah, agar hidupmu tak seperti hewan ternak, sekadar makan dan minum sebelum disembelih," kata Loki Tua waktu itu.”
― Raden Mandasia si Pencuri Daging Sapi
― Raden Mandasia si Pencuri Daging Sapi
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