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Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.
Thomas Chatterton Williams • The People Who Don’t Read Books
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “The defining feature of being drafted into the Black race [is] the inescapable robbery of time.”
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that we have grown wildly estranged from genuine wisdom or the humility with which erudition tempers facile notions of invincibility.
Thomas Chatterton Williams • The People Who Don’t Read Books
They lose attention because many of their teachers have lost attention, shed it in the heat of a formation that narrowed intellectual excellence down to one kind of performance, one kind of white body-mind.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
An essayist, a novelist, a memoirist, a historian, a poet, a comedian, a narrative philosopher, a songwriter, a screenwriter — in the search to find the edges of language, the writer finds temptations to learn all the sub-mediums.
I’d only been alive seventeen years and I was already tired of paying for white folks’ feelings with a generic smile and manufactured excellence they could not give one fuck about. I’d never heard of white folk getting caught and paying for anything they did to us, or stole from us. Didn’t matter if it was white police, white teachers, white studen
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What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Wesley Yangnymag.com