Top 20 Mira Jacob Quotes (2024 Update)

Mira Jacob Quote: “They’re sleepwalking... Someone – Kiese Laymon, I think – said most white people are sleepwalking when it comes to racism in America. They don’t see it so they think it doesn’t exist anymore. Forcing them to see that it is happening here, now, is like waking up a sleepwalker. They get disoriented. Angry at you instead of about the racism itself.”

1. “They’re sleepwalking... Someone – Kiese Laymon, I think – said most white people are sleepwalking when it comes to racism in America. They don’t see it so they think it doesn’t exist anymore. Forcing them to see that it is happening here, now, is like waking up a sleepwalker. They get disoriented. Angry at you instead of about the racism itself.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “There are small blessings, tiny ones that come unbidden and make the hard day one sigh lighter.”

2. “There are small blessings, tiny ones that come unbidden and make the hard day one sigh lighter.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “Here is the thing, though, the real, true thing I still have trouble admitting: I can’t protect you from everything... I can’t protect you from spending a lifetime caught between the beautiful dream of a diverse nation and the complicated reality of one. I can’t even protect you from the simple fact that sometimes, the people who love us will choose a world that doesn’t.”

3. “Here is the thing, though, the real, true thing I still have trouble admitting: I can’t protect you from everything... I can’t protect you from spending a lifetime caught between the beautiful dream of a diverse nation and the complicated reality of one. I can’t even protect you from the simple fact that sometimes, the people who love us will choose a world that doesn’t.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “The commodification of beauty is an economic trap designed to enslave the modern woman.”

4. “The commodification of beauty is an economic trap designed to enslave the modern woman.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “What are you girls, if not my very own heart growing up once and for all?”

5. “What are you girls, if not my very own heart growing up once and for all?”

Mira Jacob Quote: “I was scared to open my mouth. I was scared I would start yelling, and if I started yelling she would be scared of me, and if she was scared of me, she would be right about me.”

6. “I was scared to open my mouth. I was scared I would start yelling, and if I started yelling she would be scared of me, and if she was scared of me, she would be right about me.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “Because if you grow up to be the kind of person who asks questions about who you are, why things are the way they are, and what we could do to make them better, then you still have hope for this world, and if you still have hope, my love, then so do I.”

7. “Because if you grow up to be the kind of person who asks questions about who you are, why things are the way they are, and what we could do to make them better, then you still have hope for this world, and if you still have hope, my love, then so do I.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “There’s a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don’t.”

8. “There’s a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don’t.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “Cooking was a talent of her mother’s that Amina often thought of as an evolutionary way for Kamala to survive herself with friendships intact. Like plumage that expanded to rainbow an otherwise unremarkable bird, Kamala’s ability to transform raw ingredients into sumptuous meals brought her the kind of love her personality on its own might have repelled.”

9. “Cooking was a talent of her mother’s that Amina often thought of as an evolutionary way for Kamala to survive herself with friendships intact. Like plumage that expanded to rainbow an otherwise unremarkable bird, Kamala’s ability to transform raw ingredients into sumptuous meals brought her the kind of love her personality on its own might have repelled.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you’re trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you.”

10. “We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you’re trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “Sometimes, you go along with it and pretend nothing happened. Sometimes, you hold your breath until the feeling of wanting to be believed passes. Sometimes, you weigh explaining against staying quiet and know they’re both just different kinds of heavy.”

11. “Sometimes, you go along with it and pretend nothing happened. Sometimes, you hold your breath until the feeling of wanting to be believed passes. Sometimes, you weigh explaining against staying quiet and know they’re both just different kinds of heavy.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “She shuddered. Pee talkers baffled her. How could they do that? Give you no opportunity to not listen?”

12. “She shuddered. Pee talkers baffled her. How could they do that? Give you no opportunity to not listen?”

Mira Jacob Quote: “Thomas sniffed. “Don’t let’s start with all that.” “I am not starting anything! You yourself started this business!” “Enough, Kam. I am warning you.” “You don’t warn me when I’m warning you!”

13. “Thomas sniffed. “Don’t let’s start with all that.” “I am not starting anything! You yourself started this business!” “Enough, Kam. I am warning you.” “You don’t warn me when I’m warning you!”

Mira Jacob Quote: “Rob Halford?” Chacko asked. “He’s a singing priest,” Kamala said, and the others nodded quickly. “Akhil admired him very much.”

14. “Rob Halford?” Chacko asked. “He’s a singing priest,” Kamala said, and the others nodded quickly. “Akhil admired him very much.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “It was a fever, a hot rage of words.”

15. “It was a fever, a hot rage of words.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “The band in the ballroom announced the cover of a special request, and after a pause, the woman’s voice sang out the breathy first line of Etta James’s “At Last.” Chairs barked as guests rose to greet the champion of all wedding songs, the one that always brought indifferent or fighting or estranged couples to the dance floor for momentary reconciliation.”

16. “The band in the ballroom announced the cover of a special request, and after a pause, the woman’s voice sang out the breathy first line of Etta James’s “At Last.” Chairs barked as guests rose to greet the champion of all wedding songs, the one that always brought indifferent or fighting or estranged couples to the dance floor for momentary reconciliation.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “A collection of takeout boxes slumped together like old men in bad weather.”

17. “A collection of takeout boxes slumped together like old men in bad weather.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “Weddings are about fantasies – you understand? Your job is to photograph the fantasy, not the reality. Never the reality. If I ever see another picture like that, you’re fired.”

18. “Weddings are about fantasies – you understand? Your job is to photograph the fantasy, not the reality. Never the reality. If I ever see another picture like that, you’re fired.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “Thank God for Saturday mornings. A reprieve from the familiar, a day unworn by routines. Anything was possible.”

19. “Thank God for Saturday mornings. A reprieve from the familiar, a day unworn by routines. Anything was possible.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand first, like he was going to fall in love with her for her 4.3 GPA or something.”

20. “Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand first, like he was going to fall in love with her for her 4.3 GPA or something.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson.”

21. “The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson.”

Mira Jacob Quote: “Was it always this way? Did everyone from high school end up looking like weird facsimiles of other people’s parents?”

22. “Was it always this way? Did everyone from high school end up looking like weird facsimiles of other people’s parents?”

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