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394 pages, Hardcover
First published March 26, 2019
“This book is supposed to be uncomfortable. I’d apologize, but I’m not sorry.”
“Thing is,” he says, “we can run around the planet a hundred times and we’re still who we are.”
I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket. The world is a white amusement park and your white skin buys you into it. A woman in economy argued with me about this once. She said, “I’ve heard this idea and it makes me uncomfortable.”
“It probably should,” I said.
“The best part of all of you is underground if you keep thinking those people define you. Our grandparents were rotten seed. Kept secrets. Worshipped money. Pitted their kids against one another. But we aren’t them. We can break free.”
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"Wish I could have raised you in a place where the history books don't lie, but pretty much all history books lie."
"Thing is," he says, "we can run around the planet a hundred times and we're still who we are."
White is a passport. It's a ticket. The world is a white amusement park and your white skin buys you into it.
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We could all be shot dead by a crazy asshole with a gun because nobody really cares about dead schoolkids. We could all be kidnapped and no one would look for us. The chances of me getting raped before I graduate college are ridiculously high. The chances of me being abused by a future partner are about 40 percent. And there's no class about that at school.
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The guys I've known would cut her up like The Freak said the first night I met her - ass, chest, legs, face, hair. They'd notice her big front teeth and how she doesn't wear makeup. They'd laugh at the bites on her arms - when I want to apply salve to them. Boys are fucked up, man.
"Hlúpe, však? Šestnásťročný chalan hľadá odpoveď, keď ani nepozná otázku. Ibaže tú otázku poznáme všetci.
Tá otázka znie: Čo tu vlastne robím?"
"V mnohých ohľadoch sa cíti nahá celý čas. V mnohých ohľadoch celý čas nahá aj je. To je zrejme to, čo na nej desí ľudí najviac."