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But I want you to know that when I imagine myself happy, it is with you.
George Romney – Portrait of Lady Anne Barbara Russell with her eldest son Henry (1796)
It was over a plate of ribs at my aunt’s dining room table when I learned that being a woman is about what men are allowed to do to you.
Tressie McMillan Cottom, How we make black girls grow up too fast, The New York Times
Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me.
Olenna Tyrell, Game of Thrones, S7E3
People of color are similarly hypervigilant when we navigate a white social world. We screen our jokes, our laughter, our emotions and our baggage. We constantly manage complex social interactions so we aren’t fired, isolated, misunderstood, miscast or murdered. We can come home, if you’re lucky enough to have a home, and turn off that setting.
Tressie McMillan Cottom, How we make black girls grow up too fast, The New York TImes
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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