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Do you feel hurt because it’s the “all black people look the same” moment, or because you are being confused with another after being so close to this other?
though your joined personal histories are supposed to save you from misunderstandings, they usually cause you to understand all too well what is meant.
This other kind of anger in time can prevent, rather than sponsor, the production of anything except loneliness.
She has grown up, another decides, as if responding to the injustice of racism is childish and her previous demonstration of emotion was free-floating and detached from any external actions by others.
Though you can retire with an injury, you can’t walk away because you feel bad.
The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
When he opened his mouth to speak, his speech was what was written in the silence, the length of the silence becoming a living.
because white men can’t police their imagination black people are dying
And where is the safest place when that place must be someplace other than in the body?
