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“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Mostly, I wondered what black writers weren't writing when we spent so much creative energy begging white folk to change.”
― Heavy
― Heavy
“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you, I had written in my journal. But Shawn had more power over me than I could possibly have imagined. He had defined me to myself, and there’s no greater power than that.”
― Educated
― Educated
“I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward.”
― Educated
― Educated
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