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Brown Enough Quotes
Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America
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“No one should have to feel grateful about walking out of a police interaction without further consequences. But non-white bodies feel that all the time.”
― Brown Enough
― Brown Enough
“The student loan crisis in America is currently valued at $1.59 trillion and set to double by 2025. Education was once a government mandate, right? Now, as student debt rises, so do the seven-figure salaries of top university presidents.”
― Brown Enough
― Brown Enough
“Assimilation or pretending, or whatever you wanna call it, it’s not a thing to condemn, the need to assimilate into another culture to avoid discrimination and achieve advancement is pretty universal for any outsider.”
― Brown Enough
― Brown Enough
“White people love telling me that they aren’t as white as I might think they are. They love it. Like a badge of honor that says: “Beneath this skin is so much more. I’m like a tenth Middle Eastern.”
― Brown Enough
― Brown Enough
“I know that the work of decolonizing our minds from a white narrative that doesn’t make space and include the shades and shades and shades and shades of Black, white, Brown, and every color in between is a daily one. A constant one, because the reach of colonization is far, wide, and deep.”
― Brown Enough
― Brown Enough
