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In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematized oppression, can be made to feel surplus, to occupy the place of the dehumanized inferior.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
In her book Create Dangerously, Edwidge Danticat writes of the “floating homeland” of the diaspora.
https://open.substack.com/pub/aplaceforwriters/p/navel-gazing-a-space-for-outsiders
How does one, in the words so often used by such institutions, “come to terms with” (which usually means move past) ongoing and quotidian atrocity?
Christina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
race is a species of power and nothing else.
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