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American History textbooks more like
Chapter 1: Introduction to White People Chapter 2: White Settlers and the Indian Savages Chapter 3: Whitey Makes a Country Chapter 4: The Blacks Chapter 5: Wars, Wars, Wars Chapter 6: No More Racism!: Martin Luther King Jr. Gives a Speech Chapter 7: The Modern Whites
Detachment is a privilege held by people who aren’t targets.
"why are you so emotional about this" - unaffected people
read this. write it on your hand. repeat it to yourself. so you can never ask me that again
I really should have died then Tsukuru often told himself. Then this world, the one in the here and now, wouldn't exist. It was a captivating, bewitching thought. The present world wouldn't exist, and reality would no longer be real. As far as this world was concerned, he would simply no longer exist--just as this world would no longer exist for him.
Haruki Murakami Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage
Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet--for me, anyway--all that's worth living for lies in that charm?
Donna Tartt The Goldfinch
Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don't need to or can't go down it. You can. We have.
Rebecca Solnit Men Explain Things To Me "Pandora's Box And The Volunteer Police Force"
"His grandmother and I are raising him. I worry about putting him into the public school system. I was a teacher for many years. I’ve seen so much confidence destroyed by the standardized system. Every human is born with natural curiosity. I’ve never seen a child who wasn’t inspired. But once you force someone to do anything, the inspired person is killed. I dropped out of school myself in 7th grade. So I know. I taught a GED course for years, so I’ve seen the end results over and over. I’ve seen so many kids who have complexes and insecurities because they were forced to do something they weren’t ready to do, and then they were blamed when they weren’t able to do it. What we call ‘education’ today is not organic. You can’t take something as complex as the human mind, compartmentalize it, and regiment its development so strictly."
Read more at Lambda Literary’s website. GAY GENERAL FICTION
Mundo Cruel: Stories, Luis Negron; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Seven Stories Press
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION
Happiness, Like Water, Chinelo Okparanta, Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
LGBT DEBUT
Descendants…
"I care way more about getting to do what I want to do than trying to fix any kind of thing that fucks over millions of others, up to and including people getting shot and killed in bulk weekly. I mean, fuck them, right?" - All republicans
That’s correct, fuck those assholes.
For evil to triumph it is only necessary for the bad guys to be the ones with the guns.
William Nicholson The Society Of Others
Powerful, compelling argument from one of the best essayists of our time discussing his phenomenal, hopefully seminal, piece “The Case For Reparations.”
[My Twitter tribute to Maya Angelou, who is now resting in power at age 86]
Maya Angelou has always been my blueprint, the black woman writer whose work has affirmed me, whose words assured me that I was worthy of being heard. It was Maya Angelou who freed me with I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, it was Maya Angelou who helped me place first in my high school speech contest where I recited I Rise and Phenomenal Woman, it was Maya Angelou who strengthened me as I prepared to share my story in 2011 with the following mantra:
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Thank you, Maya, my mother-writer-sister-goddess.
But of course it makes sense because we are Third Worlders and Third Worlders are forward-looking, we like things to be new, because our best is still ahead, while in the West their best is already past and so they have to make a fetish out of that past.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah
'But are they treating you well? Are they treating you well?' as though the treatment was what mattered, rather than the blighted reality of it all, that he was in a holding center, about to be deported.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah
We should watch. She's hurting, but that doesn't mean she'll hurt forever--or that hurt is the only identity she can own. There is a way of representing female consciousness that can witness pain but also witness a larger self around that pain--a self who grows larger than its scars without disowning them, who is neither wound-dwelling nor jaded, who is actually healing.
Leslie Jamison "Grand Unified Theory Of Female Pain" The Empathy Exams
When I watched these films as a teenager, I got drunk. I wanted to feel things without thinking them through.
Leslie Jamison "Lost Boys" The Empathy Exams
If you kill a person, you’re a murderer. If you steal, no one would hesitate to call you a thief. But in America, when you force yourself on someone sexually, some people will jump through flaming hoops not to call you a rapist.
From my latest at the Guardian, When you call a rape anything but rape, you are just making excuses for rapists (via jessicavalenti)
Yo, how fucked up is it that white Christians can be all like "I'm a sinner because the very first human being in recorded history ate some bad fruit", but when you bring up slavery they're like "OMG THAT WAS SO LONG AGO I NEVER OWNED SLAVES DON'T BLAME ME FOR IT"
Almost like those motherfuckers are a buncha idiots tho.
