![]() It’s better to take it, spend some time crying, then wake up the next day and move on. If you think too much about the ass-kicking your mom gave you, or the ass-kicking that life gave you, you’ll stop pushing the boundaries and breaking the rules. I never let the memory of something painful prevent me from trying something new. “ remember the thing that caused the trauma, but I don’t hold on to the trauma. We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.Ĭhapter 5: The Second Girl - Location 1126-1127 “Learn from your past and be better because of your past.”Ĭhapter 5: The Second Girl - Location 1007-1007Īs modestly as we lived at home, I never felt poor because our lives were so rich with experience.Ĭhapter 5: The Second Girl - Location 1112-1113 My mother calls it “the black tax.” Because the generations who came before you have been pillaged, rather than being free to use your skills and education to move forward, you lose everything just trying to bring everyone behind you back up to zero.”Ĭhapter 5: The Second Girl - Location 997-1000 That is the curse of being black and poor, and it is a curse that follows you from generation to generation. “So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. “British racism said, ‘If the monkey can walk like a man and talk like a man, then perhaps he is a man.’ Afrikaner racism said, ‘Why give a book to a monkey?'” “ a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.” “You’re rolling with us.” With the black kids, I wasn’t constantly trying to be. Because I had a white father, because I’d been in white Sunday school, I got along with the white kids, but I didn’t belong with the white kids. My cousins are black, my mom is black, my gran is black. I saw myself as the people around me, and the people around me were black. The world saw me as colored, but I didn’t spend my life looking at myself. “ when I was forced to choose, I chose black. “Chapter 3: Trevor Pray” Location 750-751 A shared language says “We’re the same.” A language barrier says “We’re different.” Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. “Chapter 2: Born a Crime” Location 360-362 If you stop to consider the ramifications, you’ll never do anything.” ![]() She had a level of fearlessness that you have to possess to take on something like she did. “She wanted to do something, figured out a way to do it, and then she did it.
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