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Brittney Morris QUOTES

1 " As we duel, as we chat, there's an understanding that "your black is not my black" and "your weird is not my weird" and "your beautiful is not my beautiful," and that's okay. It' brings tears to my eyes if I think about it too long. "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

2 " I want you to imagine for a minute,” she begins. “I know it’s going to be hard for both of you, but just imagine—that literally nothing was made for you. Your parents were denied a house because of their skin color, your grandparents were sprayed with fire hoses and ripped apart by dogs in the streets, your great-grandparents were housemaids and mammies and barely paid entertainers, and your great-great-grandparents were slaves. Every movie in your life is majority Black, all the characters in your favorite books have been cast darker in the movie adaptation for no reason, and every mistake you make is because of your skin color and because of “your background” and because of the music you listen to. You are the only white kids at a school of five hundred Blacks, and every Black person at that school asks you to weigh in on what it’s like to be white, or what white people think about this or that. It’s not fun. "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

3 " Joy in the midst of oppression is its own kind of bravery. "

― Brittney Morris , The Cost of Knowing

4 " As we duel, as we chat, there’s an understanding that “your Black is not my Black” and “your weird is not my weird” and “your beautiful is not my beautiful,” and that’s okay. "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

5 " All I ever wanted to do was escape into this magical world where for once I don’t have to act a certain way because I’m Black, and where I don’t have to answer certain questions because I’m the Black authority in the room, and where if I do something that’s not stereotypically Black, I’m different. "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

6 " I think I love SLAY so much because we’re a mutually empathetic collective. As we duel, as we chat, there’s an understanding that “your Black is not my Black” and “your weird is not my weird” and “your beautiful is not my beautiful,” and that’s okay. "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

7 " She looks extra comfy in her pink pajama bottoms and gray Hello Kitty tank top, and I’m glad I wore my sweats and a loose T-shirt, otherwise I’d be asking to borrow some of her pj’s. That’s how you know you have a best friend on your hands. Regular friends invite you over and ask if you’d like water or coffee or something. Best friends offer you their favorite raspberry soda and their comfiest clean pajamas. Best friends can meet up after not speaking for a while, as if nothing happened. "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

8 " How do I juggle both? Can I keep existing like this, as Kiera, and as Emerald? "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

9 " quoted Elie Wiesel in my Boston University essay, and it’s coming back up with a vengeance, like a bad case of heartburn: “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

10 " I take a deep breath and wonder if Malcolm will ever understand. He surrounds himself with Black rhetoric in the form of written words. I surround myself with the company of Black gamers worldwide. What’s the difference? "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

11 " How am I supposed to tell her yes without giving the disclaimer that I can’t speak for all Black people, and that she could ask any of us this question and get a different answer every time? "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

12 " At Belmont, where 50 percent of the students are Black, and 70 percent are people of color, Malcolm and I got to be normal. Nobody was asking to touch my twist-out, nobody was asking him about his locs, and nobody was asking us for permission to appropriate Black culture as if we’re the authority for our entire race. "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

13 " People pay accountants and psychologists to give them power over the here and now, and they pay life coaches, fitness trainers, doctors, and tarot readers so they can control more of the future. "

― Brittney Morris , The Cost of Knowing

14 " I guess that’s what being Spider-Man means. Helping everyone, even when it doesn’t seem like a huge deal. "

― Brittney Morris , Wings of Fury (Spider-Man: Miles Morales)

15 " separate is not equal "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

16 " What does un-silence look like? "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

17 " To him, video games may be a distraction from becoming great, but I meant for it to do the exact opposite: to showcase how awesome we are as Black people, how multifaceted, resilient, and colorful we are. [...] “They make things ‘just for us’ all the time—we’ve got Black movies and Black History Month. They give us our own shit to distract us from the fact that we don’t have control over their shit. Separate is not equal. That doesn’t even come close to leveling the field. "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

18 " That’s going to be me, I decide, stepping forward and breaking into a sprint myself: a Spider-Man who doesn’t give up. "

― Brittney Morris , Wings of Fury (Spider-Man: Miles Morales)

19 " The walls may have been defaced with vandalism, and the lockers may have been falling apart, but at least we got to be ourselves. "

― Brittney Morris , Slay

20 " Hi, Galen. "

― Brittney Morris , The Cost of Knowing