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“Black culture traditionally hasn’t told you to be smart in school and to work hard, because your effort would benefit the slave-owner, not you.”
Winifred Gallagher • Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life



a racial crime to be yourself if you are not White in America. It is a racial crime to look like yourself or empower yourself if you are not White. I guess…
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Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow.
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Audre Lorde • 1 highlight
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As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
black people have often been figured as essentially feeling bodies and bodies that in turn hail more feelings to life: