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The problem with the statement:

"I don't see color" (as in race/ethnicity)

It sounds like,

"I'm closing my eyes to the part of you that makes me uncomfortable"

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#DearWhitePeople

Asking a Black Woman about her hair doesn't make you an ally

#how not to be anti racist #deae white people

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When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression

—Frederick Douglass

#stamped from the beginning #book quotes #racialinequality #racial justification

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Any woman who is sure of her own wits is a match at any time for a man who is not sure of his own temper

Wilkie Collins

#book quotes #wilkie collins #men and women

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"women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally"

Who loves women unconditionally?

Do men love women unconditionally?

#chrisrock #unconditional love #conditional love #men #blackwomen

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The confines of enslavement were producing Black people who were intellectually, psychologically, culturally, and behaviorally different,

Not inferior.

Ibram X Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning

#stamped from the beginning #black tumblr #book quotes

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The [mammy] stereotype masculinized Black femininity while emphasizing the ultra-femininity of their White counterparts

Ibram X Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning

#stamped from the beginning #gone with the wind #mammy #black femininity

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#cynicalperson #idealist #george carlin

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This is so true. Could it be because friends connect the writing to you, whereas strangers connect it to themselves?

“The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.”

— Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2

#writing struggles #writer problems

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"Don't get into a fight with a pig. You both will get muddy but THE PIG LIKES IT" — Unknown

#narcissist #redflag

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"The Dora Milaje share similarities with the Dahomey Amazons (Agoji), the all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey,[3][4][5] which was located in West Africa in what is now the Republic of Benin."

#the more you know #wakanda forever #dora milaje #dahomey #black panther #black women #female warriors

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"the physics of light showed that Whiteness was 'the chiefest color.' Newton took it up on himself to substantiate Boyle's color law: light is white is standard." - Ibram X Kendi

#black history #book quotes #stamped from the beginning #isaac newton #colorism

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The difference between a narcissist and someone with narcissistic personality disorder is a narcissist doesn't see their behavior as a problem.

#toxiclove #narcissist #npd

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Only thing wrong with Black people is thinking something is wrong with Black people.

Only thing extraordinary about White people is thinking something is extraordinary about White people

#black history #stamped from the beginning #book quotes

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The bedroom is not the most important room in the house

What is the most important room?

#marriage #relationships

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Their perception is their reality

Manipulative people will make reality their perception

#manipulative people

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Sometimes a person doesn't even love you for real. They just know you're a good person and they would hate to see you loving another the way you loved them.

-Unknown

#toxiclove