Damon Young (2)
Autor von What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
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Quotes: "It was more the type of gratitude that occurs when a seven-year-old nephew draws you a really sweet picture of Rosa Parks slam dunking a football."
"Dad said, "Don't break yourself trying to appease white people. Martin Luther King was killed in a suit"
"If you're poor and Black, America acts like you emerged from the room twenty-seven years old, with four kids, five predicate felonies, and a lit Newport already between your lips. White babies get to be babies. Poor Black people are born Avon Barksdale."
"There is the privilege of mistakes."
"For the first two hours following the election of Barack Obama, I knew how it felt to be a white American. But all the whiteness I'd felt moments earlier and all the pride I felt moments earlier were neutralized by worry, tension, and dread. All I could think of were the wails I'd hear from the street when our Black-ass president-elect was assassinated. My president was Black. But for my sanity's sake, I wanted him to be invisible."
"The world's rapiest vat of Cheez Whiz had somehow managed to become the next president."
"It's just too fucking much to always have to be angry and alert. To always have to be ready and willing to challenge whiteness."… (mehr)