Kim McLarin
Autor de Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X
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- Nombre canónico
- McLarin, Kim
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
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- 9
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- 277
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- 3.7
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- ISBNs
- 26
"If Black people hated America, America would be constantly on fire -and Black people would all be dead. Instead of just some of us."
"James Baldwin and Hannah Arendt are worried about the opposite sides of the same coin: Arendt is worried what Black people will do to White people if we were ever to gain power. Baldwin, having seen clearly what power has done to White folks, is worried what it would do to us."
"Whiteness as a racial category was a necessary and deliberate creation of the slave-based economies of the English Caribbean and North America, but in place...in order to justify the theft of land, the genocide of Indigenous people, and the enslavement of Africans."
"Some people age like trees because they live in a forest and some people age like animals because their world is a zoo."
"Not everything is about race" is such a funny thing for a White person to say to a Black person. I can't count how many times I've rolled my eyes in response. Nobody wishes this was more so than Black people."
"In truth I'm probably not nearly as kind as I like to think I am. Probably neither are you. Though it is unkind of me to say."
"The dictionary defines community as 'a unified body of individuals'. In America, we tend to take that definition backward, starting with "individuals" and stubbornly halting there."
"From what I see, what I have seen, the arc of the moral universe bends whichever way it gets pulled. The only way to bend the arc back the right way is for each of us to grab hold and pull. Hard.'"… (más)