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I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual QUOTES

I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

2 " Some well-meaning folks think if we stop talking about racism, it’ll magically disappear, like the smell of an errant fart. But like a fart, people might try to be polite and ignore it, but everyone knows it’s there. Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going wrong only makes matters worse. It’s like someone breaks your arm, and the person who slammed the baseball bat into it is saying, 'The only reason it won’t heal is because you keep complaining that it hurts.' How about you get me a cast so the bone can set straight again? America does not want to put the effort into providing this cast. This is why we must talk about race, and we must do it openly. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

3 " We have more ways to get our news than ever, which is supposed to be a good thing, because more competition is supposed to challenge you to do better. However, in this social media age, what is has done is allowed the information business to be a free- rein free-for-all. Old rules of journalistic integrity have been thrown out the window. Everyone has been given the conch, and no one knows what to do with it. Instead of using the new-media landscape to spur us to higher quality, we have instead become sloppier than ever: Tweet first, research later. Post first, rescind later. Guess first, confirm later. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

4 " We are entrusting thousands of strangers with our innermost thoughts and feelings, and then we're expecting them to be careful with those feelings. As much as we want it to be, the Internet is not a safe space. It is not a place where we can lay our burdens down and heal. Why? Because there are too many people there who do not give an ounce of a shit about our well-being. They do not deserve our rawness, and they will not treat it with care. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

5 " 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? "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

6 " Don't drop your burdens on people without also being willing to drop some blessings on them, too. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

7 " Sometimes, I wonder which is better: a blatant bigot or an oblivious racist. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

8 " I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not part of who i am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

9 " People have made it too easy to know everything about their personal business because of social media, especially Facebook. That is a digital Lipton factory where all gossip tea goes to boil. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

10 " There are some people who fall short in the being thoughtful department. They aren't being malicious but they certainly tap dance on people's last nerves with their shenanigans. These are the people who are perpetually late, take advantage of their friends in various ways, and children. We know them and we love them and we keep them in our lives but we sometimes wish that they would get their shit together. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

11 " Putting serious messages in Comic Sans is like dropping bad news and then saying LOL afterwards, it does not compute nor does it make sense. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

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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. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

13 " 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. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

14 " First of all, even nice people can be racists, because racism does not depend on malicious intent. It is not a requirement for you to consciously hate someone who is of a different skin color for you to be racist. Let me repeat. You do not need to actively hate someone who is of a different race than you to do racist crap and hold racist views. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

15 " 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. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

16 " Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line. Acknowledging them does not mean you are admitting to doing something to purposefully contribute to someone else’s oppression or marginalization. Nay, friends. It means you recognize that some part of your identity puts you in a better position than others. It means something about you assists your progress in the race of life. It also means that whatever majority group you belong to has likely contributed to the oppression of another. Knowing our privilege does not make us villains, but it should make us more conscious about the parts we play in systems that are greater than us. It should make us be more thoughtful; it should humble us. We need to admit that some of us had a head start and aren’t just flourishing on our strength alone. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

17 " I am not asking everyone to be activists. I am not asking everyone to march on the front lines. I am not asking every writer, public figure, or celebrity to lead social movements. I am not asking them to make speeches on how they have a dream. I am, however, challenging people not to stay silent as the world crumbles. You do not have to yell. Even a whisper of truth matters in an echo chamber of lies. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

18 " Real women breathe. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

19 " It’s like someone breaks your arm, and the person who slammed the baseball bat into it is saying, “The only reason it won’t heal is because you keep complaining that it hurts.” How about you get me a cast so the bone can set straight again? America does not want to put the effort into providing this cast. This is why we must talk about race, and we must do it openly. As "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

20 " If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. "

― Luvvie Ajayi Jones , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual