Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
MICHELLE OBAMAEven if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path—the my-isn’t-that-impressive path—and keep you there for a long time.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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