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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quotes

born 1976 United States

Tressie McMillan Cottom (born 09 October 1976) is an American writer, sociologist, and professor.

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We don’t even have the power to build a bubble, right? That’s the ultimate story of being who we are and writing about ourselves. We don’t even have the authority to create that bubble.

Part of my personal political project is naturalizing the sound of expert information in a Black American woman’s voice.

The hyper-visibility means that you both can't hide, but also never really feel completely seen by authority figures and by your peer groups. Trapped in that space of hyper-visibility, I think, is where we wrestle with the ideas of, 'What part of me matters?'

“I’m well known for not being very enthusiastic about giving advice, because advice is only useful as an ego exercise unless you actually know the recipien.

I want to be able to show up and raise the hell at the precise right moment that might tip the scales in a way that will make something a little more clear, or a little bit more just, for people I care about…

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tressie McMillan Cottom (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.