You Get What You Pay For Quotes

“The biggest shame, our biggest shame, is that—as a child doing a simple homework assignment, or on a field trip, receiving hugs in a civil rights exhibit—I so easily internalized my nation’s wreckage. That because my sociocultural introduction to myself was framed by sorrow and inadequacy, I felt those things to be both my history and destiny. I internalized the obligation of apologizing, repenting, making up for myself. These were hard tasks to confront, as I did not know what I was apologizing for.”
― Morgan Parker, You Get What You Pay For: Essays