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"Maybe there is no saving, only salvaging.
Maybe every breath is the triumph, and we must learn to take the win."

Oh my fucking gawds.

"So much of what we speak is our attempts to make our fantasies real."

"Do not read of the indignities visited upon Black people enslaved in the American south, in the West Indies, unless you are prepared to die of grief. A child bound and raped is a sad thing, but not so rare a thing. 

Humans are gods making worlds and then making miseries of those worlds."

"I think often about what is possible and what is impossible. Consider the Holocaust. How it could be so. How such a sad, sad thing could be so, and yet it is so.
Genocide is to humankind like water, air.
There is no such thing as 'never again'.
For how many decades has Israel tried to snuff out Palestine?"

"..parents atone for their personal lacks by punishing their offspring."

Insightful

This is stunning. It brings to mind Toni Morrison's prose. Not in style but in function.
This speaks to me of intergenerational trauma and its ghosts.

"...white supremacy operates under a logic in which everything whiteness does can be rationalized as good and everything Blackness does can be rationalized as preternatural evil."

A whole sermon in a sentence, lol!