Reading this and I want to WEEP at how accurate and profound this is, especially the chapters on rape culture, racism and privilege. I want to take a loudspeaker and broadcast this to the universe.

On racism she says, "We cannot respectably dress it away, un-cuss it away, protest it away. White people have to do it. They have to be willing to come off their (stolen) high horses and fight for change...Racism is the lasting psychological, financial, and cultural legacy of centuries of slavery and segregation brought on Black people, and the lack of atonement of white people in power...It is what’s at work when people of color are called “immigrants” and white people are referred to as “expatriates.”

On privilege," Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line...It also means that whatever majority group you belong to has likely contributed to the oppression of another. "

On rape culture, "Let’s think about that: men have been so enraged by not getting positive attention from strangers that they have gone as far as to inflict bodily harm on them. This sense of entitlement is the crux of rape culture. Men feel entitled to the attention of women, and they have been programmed to expect that they have some sort of ownership over us. Rape culture is the prevailing attitude that women exist primarily to please men, and therefore are not equal human beings with agency over their own bodies.
Rape culture does not mean every man is a rapist. It does mean that we’re surrounded by a cultural atmosphere that perpetuates and enables the harming and violation of girls and women physically, emotionally, and sexually. (Men are also victims of this toxic mind-set. "

Drops mic. These quotes are some of the ones that really stood out for me. The wisdom, the tea, the humor