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41 " What’s a mainstream millennial?’ Darcy asked. ‘Have I made this term up?’ I questioned myself. ‘I’m sure I’ve seen it on the internet. You know those men: bike-riding, knitted jumper, loves Jeremy Corbyn? Pretends Facebook isn’t important to them but it really is?’ I was met with a blank stare, so carried on. ‘Craft beer, start-ups, sense of entitlement? Reads books by Alain de Botton, needs a girlfriend who doesn’t threaten their mediocrity? "
― Candice Carty-Williams , Queenie
42 " I don't want to be this girl. Something must really be up with my head if I was turning into this girl. "
43 " Trust me, your daughter is all right. She’s a brave one.” “Being brave isn’t the same as being okay,” my mum said quietly. "
44 " Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I’ve ever met. "
45 " Never trust a gemini man "
46 " It just didn’t feel like courtship to me. Maybe I was too old-fashioned in my thinking? "
47 " the room that smelt like someone had spilled a bucket of bleach. "
48 " «Nobody goes to parties because they like them» Leigh said. «We go either because we want to show everyone else there that we're better than them, or because we want to distract ourselves» "
49 " She’s so anal that she’d put full stops at the end of all her messages. "
50 " Being brave isn’t the same as being okay, "
51 " I think that we all need to scrap this idea that normality is something to strive toward. "
52 " Kyazike, are they going to kill us all?” I asked angrily. “For doing nothing. Nothing at all. For just being. For being black in the wrong place, at the wrong time? I hate it,” I said breathlessly. “It’s unfair, it hurts my heart. Who will police the police? "
53 " I knew Darcy hadn't meant it, and she was only guilty of it this one time but I wish that well-meaning white liberals would think before they said things they thought were perfectly innocent. "
54 " Is this what growing into an adult woman is, having to predict and accordingly arrange for the avoidance of sexual harassment? "
55 " White guys who like to bait black girls, use them for what they want, then humiliate them. I bet he waited until getting you drunk and back to his house to start with his Jim Crow nonsense. He did, innit? "
56 " He moved so that I could nuzzle into him and although I wasn´t a person who ever felt particularly safe, I did, but just for a second. "
57 " What’s wrong? You don’t want us to help each other out?’ He smirked as I reached for the handle and backed out of the front door. ‘My people, we like your people. We’re all outsiders. First Brexit, then Blaxit,’ he chuckled. "
58 " Besides, your ethnic group puts you in a higher risk of being in an abusive relationship. "
59 " That’s the thing about people who love to play devil’s advocate!’ I shouted. ‘There’s no emotional involvement in it for you, there’s nothing at stake!’ I made my way to the front door. "
60 " You’ll meet people who “don’t see race” and are “colourblind”, but that’s a lie. "