Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

#1. Black trauma is never given space to heal because we have to make sure the white people who hurt us don't feel too bad about it. Even as victims, we're told to care about the feelings of those who harm us.

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#2. If the prosperity of megachurches was parallel to the prosperity of the people in the community they were in, there would be less to judge them for. But what is the point of a million-dollar mansion surrounded by shacks? What is the point of a billionaire whose closest friends are destitute? Far

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#3. But let's be real: feminism has mostly worked hard for those things for white women, and that is one of the main reasons why it gets its wig snatched so often. A

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#4. But we are more than the sum of our parts, and we are more than the numbers on our scales. Be like me and judge people by the decisions they make with their eyebrows. That's way more important.

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#5. You know what makes no sense? A bunch of penises making choices for vaginas. That's like interviewing a turtle on the struggles of being a dolphin. We

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#6. Black people actually have to PROVE their humanity, instead of having it accepted as a given.

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#7. Real women breathe.

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#8. Too many people have a cramped idea of what feminism is, and all it does is marginalize women and discourage more of us from using that label. The

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#9. Street harassment is not flattering, because it speaks to the fact that men see our presence as an opportunity for sexual advances.

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#10. The fight for equality on any front does not equate to the oppression of the oppressors.

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#11. Why try to change who you were born to be and force yourself into who you think everyone will find more beautiful? Society has failed people to the point where they feel they cannot like themselves in the skin they were born in.

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#12. The assumption that women in hijab are less enlightened or empowered than those rocking daisy dukes is arrogant at best. Feminism should fight for all women to have he right to live as they choose, not for all women to live the same exact lives like we're all in some sort of Sims game.

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#13. Everyone needs to be skinny, but not too skinny. You need to be thick, but not fat. We're pretty much the pits, and I can't help but judge us, because nothing weight-related comes with anything but scorn.

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#14. White women, include women of color in your agenda as you fight for equality. Don't leave us behind and then only call on us when you need our numbers.

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#15. how many love stories begin with, "He yelled at me from his car as I was going to work?" If

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#16. I do not expect or even try to convince anyone else to be religious or practice any spirituality. Your faith, your choice. Just walk in love and try not to be a hateful shrew and you'd be doing life right.

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#17. Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.

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#18. If you constantly have to play ombudsman for your beloved, you're in a co-dependent prison of your own making. People will keep doing what they can get away with.

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#19. People rush to discredit survivors and protect perpetrators because it's easier to deny that something happened than to deal with the fact that there are predators in our midst. Unfortunately,

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#20. I am not ride-or-die. Those are some pretty limiting choices: So if I'm not riding, I gotta die? Can I get off and take the bus? Is "Let's talk about it" an option? What about "ride, or pause this if we need to"? There

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#21. You're so skinny! Do you eat?! Maybe you just need a sandwich.

No, I don't eat. I survive on a steady diet of air and water. Don't worry about me, worry about you. You don't see me walking up to you, saying, "I see you've been eating. A LOT." Rude.

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#22. There's power in believing there's a God in each of us because if we are made in His/Her/Their image, aren't we all like good horcruxes for God? Because a piece of them is in us?

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#23. Racism is not a byproduct as much as it's the foundational stock in the American soup.

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#24. we're not all in the same race, so why do you think we're in the same lane? It

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#25. White feminism has bred far too many mean girls who think they are fighting for all women but who are really fighting just for the ones who look like them. Let

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