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“At the time of this writing, Donald Trump seeks the Republican nomination supported largely by a bunch of angry white people who sense where history is going and DO NOT LIKE IT AT ALL and are therefore hoping that if they punch and shove enough brown people, it will fix it. Perhaps when you read this, Donald Trump will be president or maybe superking. But even if that happens, he shall pass. Time does not go backward.”
― Phoebe Robinson, You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

“And maybe they don’t because they’re under the misapprehension that because I talk about race a lot, that I must love talking about it. I don’t. And I’ll let you in on a little secret about what other black people rarely say: Explaining your life to a world that doesn’t care to listen is often more draining than living in it.”
― Phoebe Robinson, You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

“we do not choose our circumstances, the prejudices that we inherit, or our privilege or lack of it. It”
― Phoebe Robinson, You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain