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You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown
Compiled and edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown, this is a great collection of essays from a diverse group of Black voices on their lived experiences with being vulnerable, dealing with systemic racism and the traumas that has caused them. Highly recommend. I especially enjoyed the essays by disability activist, Keah Brown and actor Laverne Cox.
Favorite quotes:
"We've created a culture in which it's unsafe for you to be vulnerability."
"We need to live in an antiracist society and people need to learn to be antiracist and practice antiracism but I do not believe your antiracism work if you have not engaged with Black humanity."
"If you don't see the heart and the love and the humanity and the joy of the Black experience, of Black community, then the antiracism work is bankrupt."
"If we don't talk about trauma, if we don't talk about shame and do the work to begin to heal, to develop shame and trauma resilience, we can't fully come together. The community of us is in so much pain, so much hurt. What I've been trying to show is that that pain, that hurt is intergenerational, it's historical and it's collective, hurt people hurt people."
Favorite quotes:
"We've created a culture in which it's unsafe for you to be vulnerability."
"We need to live in an antiracist society and people need to learn to be antiracist and practice antiracism but I do not believe your antiracism work if you have not engaged with Black humanity."
"If you don't see the heart and the love and the humanity and the joy of the Black experience, of Black community, then the antiracism work is bankrupt."
"If we don't talk about trauma, if we don't talk about shame and do the work to begin to heal, to develop shame and trauma resilience, we can't fully come together. The community of us is in so much pain, so much hurt. What I've been trying to show is that that pain, that hurt is intergenerational, it's historical and it's collective, hurt people hurt people."