Status Updates From If I Ruled the World

“You were breaking ground, so what did you think it was going to be like? The first one always has it bad. I just thought you were strong enough to deal with it."

"What are you, a child? You think you’re the first Black person to deal with racism on the job?"

Starting this one to check off my last Goodreads achievement for Q3!!!! So far so good

Barbara let that hover in the air between us for a moment, while I wondered again why it was my fate to deal with women whose insults and compliments sounded exactly the same.

“Where do we belong? Literally nowhere" I fell silent, this time not sure if we were still talking about publishing. Teresa and I had bonded in our high school years over feeling like outsiders: she, a brown-skinned native-Spanish-speaking immigrant; me, a biracial Black private school-educated Harlem girl. She wasn't Spanish enough, I wasn't rich enough, neither of us was Black enough.

"Now that I'm achieving all these goals at work, I don't know why I'm not more fulfilled. And I can't complain to anyone because I sound like a bougie ingrate.”

"We have a million single friends who'd cut off a pinky to be with a guy like him.." I finished half my glass in one gulp. “It's just weird that the less I recognize myself, the more he adores me."

He was generous and smart and attractive. And I was damaged goods, a jumbo shrimp with imperfect morals and a mountain of credit card debt. Joseph made me feel like a better version of myself-in part, I hated to admit, because he thought I deserved him.

"Black girls don't sell magazines."

I knew Barbara ass was on some BS.

Im like the turn this book just took! Slick Bishop a sick MF!!