between the world and the self
He who gets behind in a race must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
Colson Whitehead • The Nickel Boys
Notes & Highlights for The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
Reassembling those fragments into confirmation of a shared darkness: If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.
Colson Whitehead • The Nickel Boys
There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are.
Colson Whitehead • The Nickel Boys
Notes & Highlights for The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
No surprise, then, that sometimes I dreamed of trying to pull a mask off my face, only to realize that the mask was my face.
Viet Thanh Nguyen • The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The black world was expanding before me, and I could see now that that world was more than a photonegative of that of the people who believe they are white.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
Notes & Highlights for The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
You’re forced to realize your identity was a choice, and then to choose another. But you know this next strategy will never have the same passion as the one you’d chosen as a child. Now you’re especially aware that it’s a choice. And you know it, too, will likely fade.