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🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

My mom didn’t want my mind polluted by movies with sex and violence. So the Bible was my action movie. Samson was my superhero.
Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the system, race-mixing becomes a crime worse than treason.
At the time, a black woman learning how to type was like a blind person learning how to drive.
That’s how a police state works—everyone thinks everyone else is the police.
Where most children are proof of their parents’ love, I was the proof of their criminality.
A black child, you hit them and they stay black. Trevor, when you hit him he turns blue and green and yellow and red.
A knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.
Learn from your past and be better because of your past.
As modestly as we lived at home, I never felt poor because our lives were so rich with experience.
So Japanese people were given honorary white status while Chinese people stayed black.
“Yes. Because you did something wrong. It doesn’t mean I don’t love you anymore.”
Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being.
“Because,” she would say, “even if he never leaves the ghetto, he will know that the ghetto is not the world. If that is all I accomplish, I’ve done enough.”