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“I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Losing privilege can feel a lot like inequality. If something feels unfair to you as a white person, it's likely that equality is actually being achieved in that moment.”
― My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
― My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
“I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.”
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“But I also instantly recognized this response as my conditioning from grad school, where these things were trained out of me, where I was reprogrammed in a way that actually took away my power while purporting to give me access to power--power that, through my voice, I'd already had.”
― AOC: The Fearless Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and What It Means for America
― AOC: The Fearless Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and What It Means for America
“I've come to see the American Dream for what it really is: a lie my parents had little choice but to buy into and sell to me, a lie that conflated working hard with passing for, becoming, and being white.”
― My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
― My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
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