[Highlights] Black White and Jewish

“Shame sticks to me like sweat.”

Black White and Jewish (Kindle Location 704)

“I start to remember in shards, pieces of glass that rip my skin and leave marks.”

Black White and Jewish (Kindle Location 705)

“These are memories like a broken bottle, memories I can’t speak because the glass gets caught in my throat, ripping it, too.”

Black White and Jewish (Kindle Location 708)

“It is so much easier to be an empty screen for their projections, so much easier to believe all those nice words than to try to reach back there and piece it all together.”

Black White and Jewish (Kindle Location 717)

“Having to remember my own life means that I have to feel it, too. I have to pay attention to the thoughts that float, uninvited, to mind.”

Black White and Jewish (Kindle Location 721)