Status Updates From Familiar Stranger: A Life B...

Such a wonderful first chapter. Hall is so sharp and eloquent with his writing, excited to get into this

"The nightmare for white men seems to be that black men might outdo them in sexual size or performance and displace them in the eyes of white women."

Ik ga stuk

"respectability as a social value has its reverse side: an attitude of simmering resentment, resistance and insubordination which smoulders beneath, but is never far from, the surface."

"respectability as a social value has its reverse side: an attitude of simmering resentment, resistance and insubordination which smoulders beneath, but is never far from, the surface."

"I’ve been riveted by the question of how we can understand the chaos of identifications which we assemble in order to navigate the social world and also how we seek to reach, somehow, ‘ourselves’. Of course this arrival never occurs: we’ll never be ourselves, whatever that could mean."