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“Bigotry isn’t a disease, Amoris. You don’t just have it or not have it. It’s something you participate in, whether you like it or not. Excusing people for bigotry only makes it worse.”
“You need to ask yourself, Amoris—is your comfort really more valuable than my humanity?”
If I were a man, people would call me a leader, but because I’m a woman, I’m a bitch. Well, fuck that. Excuse me if I won’t sit back and let other people tell me how to live.”
“I just need to put up with it,” Jamison says. “It’s not worth the hassle.” “Said every oppressed person while continually being oppressed. That attitude won’t change the world.”
get that the big issues pull a lot of attention, but that doesn’t mean you should suffer death by a million pinpricks just because you’re one of the only Black kids in this school and White people are afraid of the word ‘racist.
Lori laughs. “Yeah, kind of. Capitalism doesn’t thrive on unique thinkers. It thrives on factory workers. In a way, our public educational system is rigged. It always has been.”
We put people in pretty boxes with pretty labels, so they can’t disappoint us. But that’s how we get pretty lies. We even do it to ourselves.
Love is a human right, not a reward for good behavior.”
On the subject of racism, no single answer absolves us from constant and vigilant work. There is no typing THE END and walking away. There is no putting down the pen. There is no homework pass, or gold star, or A-plus grade that tells the world, “This person has mastered antiracism.” There is only work.
