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Claudia Rankine
“I don’t think white people identify themselves as white Americans. They think their perspective is objective. They don’t realize they’re always invested in the advancement of white people.”
Claudia Rankine, The White Card: A Play

Caleb Azumah Nelson
“of unresolved grief, large and small, of others assuming that he, beautiful Black person in gorgeous Black body, was born violent and dangerous; this assumption, impossible to hide, manifesting in every word and glance and action, and every word and glance and action ingested and internalized, and it’s unfair and unjust, this sort of death”
Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

Brittney Cooper
“I eat white-lady tears for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”
Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Ta-Nehisi Coates
“All of these fanatics were white. They took slavery as a personal insult or affront, a stain upon their name. They had seen women carried off to fancy, or watched as a father was stripped and beaten in front of his child, or seen whole families pinned like hogs into rail-cars, steam-boats, and jails. Slavery humiliated them, because it offended a basic sense of goodness that they believed themselves to possess. And when their cousins perpetrated the base practice, it served to remind them how easily they might do the same. They scorned their barbaric brethren, but they were brethren all the same. So their opposition was a kind of vanity, a hatred of slavery that far outranked any love of the slave.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

Emily Nagoski
“As Naomi Wolf puts it, “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience.” Thin bodies are the bodies of women who behave themselves.”
Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

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