Christina Stenstrom
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"“…stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns…”
“they [dreamy mast-headers] have left their opera glasses at home”
“For again Starbuck’s downcast eyes lighted up with the stubbornness of life… For with little external to constrain us, the innermost necessities in our being, these still drive us.”" — Jul 25, 2022 08:30PM
"“…stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns…”
“they [dreamy mast-headers] have left their opera glasses at home”
“For again Starbuck’s downcast eyes lighted up with the stubbornness of life… For with little external to constrain us, the innermost necessities in our being, these still drive us.”" — Jul 25, 2022 08:30PM


“The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it was not. But it’s a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue; I did not think of myself as black and I only became black when I came to America. When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn’t matter when you’re alone together because it’s just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, race matters. But we don’t talk about it. We don’t even tell our white partners the small things that piss us off and the things we wish they understood better, because we’re worried they will say we’re overreacting, or we’re being too sensitive. And we don’t want them to say, Look how far we’ve come, just forty years ago it would have been illegal for us to even be a couple blah blah blah, because you know what we’re thinking when they say that? We’re thinking why the fuck should it ever have been illegal anyway? But we don’t say any of this stuff. We let it pile up inside our heads and when we come to nice liberal dinners like this, we say that race doesn’t matter because that’s what we’re supposed to say, to keep our nice liberal friends comfortable. It’s true. I speak from experience.”
― Americanah
― Americanah

“To refuse to listen to someone’s cries for justice and equality until the request comes in a language you feel comfortable with is a way of asserting your dominance over them in the situation.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race

“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
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