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My undiagnosed ADHD is LIVING for this writing style

I wish I could have enough brain space to catch up on my letterboxd goal and my gooodreads at the same time. WHY CANT MY BRAIN CAPACITY FIT BOTH

“When he sees a godlike face or bodily form that has captured Beauty well, first he shud- ders and a fear comes over him like those he felt at the earlier time; then he gazes at him with the reverence due a god, and if he weren’t afraid people would think him completely mad, he’d even sacrifice to his boy as if he were the image of a god.”

8am classes on Fridays after getting completely obliterated the night before WILL be the end of me

SHES GONNA CONFESS YES YES YES IM SO MAD I HAVE TO PAUSE MY READING CAUSE OF MY 11AM

“Feminism was helping me to become a more critical, confident woman, and in turn, it was helping me come to terms with my blackness - a part of myself that I'd always known was shrouded in stigma— Up until then, I'd understood myself as someone who was pretty for a black girl', as someone who spoke well for where she came from'.”

Currently trying to open a book Everytime I get the urge to open TikTok

“I coveted whiteness once, but I knew in the back of my mind that conning myself into assimilation would only ever make me a poor imitation of what I would never be.” This White Privilege chapter is by far my favorite read ever. If this chapter was just an article, I would have it framed on my wall. Every. Single. Sentence.

YES YES GIRL I CANNOT BEKIEVE IM CHEERING ON STRAIGHT SEX RN

“Representation doesn't always mean that the representer will work in the favour of those who need representation.”

I love how the author is bringing awareness to how no one ever discusses black history in Britain; almost as if it never existed. We choose to only focus on racism in America & pretend that British history never discriminated against POC, and without having had read the first chapter of this book, I wouldn’t have thought so either. Which is the sad, ignorant, uneducated truth.