Memoir of a Race Traitor Quotes

“As a child of Europeans, a woman whose families have spent many generations on these shores, some of them in relative material privilege, my culture raised me to compete for grades, for jobs, for money, for self-esteem. As my lungs breathed in competition, they breathed out the stale air of individualism, delivering the toxic message: You are on your own. Being "queer" only amplified the problem. Traveling across race and class and cultural boundaries, my ear eventually became tuned to different vibrations so that I began to hear, first as a murmur, then as clearly articulated sound: We... are... in... this... together. My lungs relaxed some, my chest gasped the clearer air.”
― Mab Segrest, Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South