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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

When I watched all the children, their copper, brown, and beige faces staring up at me as I taught Sunday school, I felt that I was committing a crime in talking about the gentle Jesus, in telling them to reconcile themselves to their misery on earth in order to gain the crown of eternal life. Were only Negroes to gain this crown? Was Heaven, then, to be merely another ghetto?

To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world. Remember that: I know how black it looks today, for you. It looked bad that day, too, yes, we were trembling. We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have survived. And now you must survive because we love you, and for the sake of your children and your children's children.

I have survived my life.

that Schwarzenegger quote is WILD

“Passive suffering has … been seen as a universal, “natural,” female destiny, carried into every sphere of our experience; and until we understand this fully, we will not have the self-knowledge to move from a centuries-old “endurance” of suffering to a new active being”

🤯🤯🤯

“I showed the video to my ten-year-old son. ‘So basically it’s racist,’ he observed, meaning the ban. Correct. And sexist, too.”

this random insert in what is otherwise an insightful chapter on black natural hair is giving “#ruthkanda forever”

intact by clare chambers save me. save me intact by clare chambers SAVE ME.

"I'm a moderate smoker."

yeah alright holden. sure. yeah

Lesbians

“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”

REALLL

bro is yapping

do you think they've ever explored each other's bodies

every time i think that this book might have something of value it disproves itself again

I can't fucking do this right now

HE HAS THE GARFIELD CHOCOLATE SCRATCH N SNIFF STICKER??? I'M SO ENVIOUS

do I spy a TFIOS reference?

y'all do NOT have the finances to be attending the kind of dinner parties where you need to bring a gift

isa listen to me. tell noel to kill himself and move on.

isa: look at this terminally online freak

the incorrect apostrophe placement in "y'all" ... yeah you're british