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“And so the days pass. I keep waiting for something to happen, for the ease I feel to end, but each day follows on much like the one before.”
― Foster
― Foster

“Where there’s a secret,â€� she says, ‘there’s shame â€� and shame is something we can do without.”
― Foster
― Foster

“Let it come, she thought, if it will come. For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can either think nor feel, she thought, where is one?”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“At school, my science teacher talked about the ozone layer even as aerosol hairspray kept clouding the bathroom stalls. I tried to tell Mom about climate change, but she acted like I was gullible. If I was mad about losing our land, I was even angrier about what they'd done to it. While I still didn't know about the massacres, I knew enough to feel robbed. Manhatten was purchased with beads. Valuable furs had been traded for whiskey. White people used empty promises as tender, and in exchange, we Indians got blood quantum, our lineages tracked like thoroughbreds or dogs, destined to be turned into glue.”
― Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
― Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
“...For the system of white supremacy to stay in place, the United States must always be at war.”
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