“I think everyone has a moment when you know you are white, or when you know you are not and it’s a very powerful moment. It crops up time and time again in literature. It’s never understood by psychiatrists to be of any moment, but it is. It’s a totally overwhelming moment, particularly if you love the person who’s the other color; the child sitting next to you or the woman taking care of you. And then you’re told that there’s this profound, meaningful, difference; not the difference in eye color or the shape of a lip, but a meaningful difference that requires separation. And what happens is that you feel that you have loved something that is unworthy of you or that you have wasted this wonderful feeling you have. I think it’s traumatic, that moment.”
Toni Morrison breaks down the nature of racism in a profound narrative.
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Kimberly considers herself a maverick, which means an unorthodox or independent-minded person or an unbranded calf or yearling. She prefers the first definition. A writer, an architect and historian, an artist, and most recently, a musician, she is fascinated with juxtapositions like positive and negative, beauty and ugly, sublime and repulsive, black and white, reality and fantasy; and with the notion of the “other” and what it means to be human. She is also a bit obsessed with simulation theory. Kimberly currently spends her time between playwriting and bartending at her favorite dive bars. View all posts by kimpstudio
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