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Top 15 Tressie McMillan Cottom Quotes (2024 Update)

Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “Beauty isn’t actually what you look like; beauty is the preferences that reproduce the existing social order.”

1. “Beauty isn’t actually what you look like; beauty is the preferences that reproduce the existing social order.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “Smart is only a construct of correspondence, between one’s abilities, one’s environment, and one’s moment in history.”

2. “Smart is only a construct of correspondence, between one’s abilities, one’s environment, and one’s moment in history.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that ugly is as ugly does. Both are lies. Ugly is everything done to you in the name of beauty. Knowing the difference is part of getting free.”

3. “They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that ugly is as ugly does. Both are lies. Ugly is everything done to you in the name of beauty. Knowing the difference is part of getting free.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “To know our whites is to understand the psychology of white people and the elasticity of whiteness. It is to be intimate with some white persons but to critically withhold faith in white people categorically. It is to anticipate white people’s emotions and fears and grievances, because their issues are singularly our problem. To know our whites is to survive without letting bitterness rot your soul.”

4. “To know our whites is to understand the psychology of white people and the elasticity of whiteness. It is to be intimate with some white persons but to critically withhold faith in white people categorically. It is to anticipate white people’s emotions and fears and grievances, because their issues are singularly our problem. To know our whites is to survive without letting bitterness rot your soul.”

— Tressie McMillan Cottom

Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “Black girlhood ends whenever a man says it ends.”

5. “Black girlhood ends whenever a man says it ends.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “I hate small talk. It is small. Small is for teacups and occasionally for tiny houses. Too much small talk is how a country is given to sociopaths who thrive on shallow chatter to distract their emotional sleight of hand. Talk should be meaningful or kept to a minimum.”

6. “I hate small talk. It is small. Small is for teacups and occasionally for tiny houses. Too much small talk is how a country is given to sociopaths who thrive on shallow chatter to distract their emotional sleight of hand. Talk should be meaningful or kept to a minimum.”

— Tressie McMillan Cottom

Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “When we perform some existential service to men, to capital, to political power, to white women, and even to other “people of color” who are marginally closer to white than they are to black, then we are superwomen. 7 We are fulfilling our purpose in the natural order of things. When, instead, black women are strong in service of themselves, that same strength, wisdom, and wit become evidence of our incompetence.”

7. “When we perform some existential service to men, to capital, to political power, to white women, and even to other “people of color” who are marginally closer to white than they are to black, then we are superwomen. 7 We are fulfilling our purpose in the natural order of things. When, instead, black women are strong in service of themselves, that same strength, wisdom, and wit become evidence of our incompetence.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “When I write, I am fixing my feet. I am claiming the ethos, or moral authority, to influence public discourse. And I am defying every expectation when I do it.”

8. “When I write, I am fixing my feet. I am claiming the ethos, or moral authority, to influence public discourse. And I am defying every expectation when I do it.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “Symbolic violence only makes sense if we accept its priors: all preferences in imperial, industrialized societies are shaped by the economic system.”

9. “Symbolic violence only makes sense if we accept its priors: all preferences in imperial, industrialized societies are shaped by the economic system.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “I fix myself, even when it causes great pain to do so, because I know that I cannot fix the way the world sees me.”

10. “I fix myself, even when it causes great pain to do so, because I know that I cannot fix the way the world sees me.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “The things we touch and smell and see and experience through our senses are how stories become powerful. But I have never wanted to only tell powerfully evocative stories. I have wanted to tell evocative stories that become a problem for power. For that, I draw upon data and research.”

11. “The things we touch and smell and see and experience through our senses are how stories become powerful. But I have never wanted to only tell powerfully evocative stories. I have wanted to tell evocative stories that become a problem for power. For that, I draw upon data and research.”

— Tressie McMillan Cottom

Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “Decades before I valued myself enough to be careful for myself, I was careful so that my mother would not worry.”

12. “Decades before I valued myself enough to be careful for myself, I was careful so that my mother would not worry.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “In a modern society, who is allowed to speak with authority is a political act.”

13. “In a modern society, who is allowed to speak with authority is a political act.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “I want nice people with nice enough politics to looks at me, reason for themselves that I am worthy, and feel convicted when the world does not agree.”

14. “I want nice people with nice enough politics to looks at me, reason for themselves that I am worthy, and feel convicted when the world does not agree.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “The real criticism was directed at her turn to slavery: “back in the slave days I would’ve never been single. I am six feet tall and I am strong! I’m just saying back in the slave days my love life would have been way better. Massa would’ve hooked me up with the best brother on the plantation.” It hurts to watch the video.”

15. “The real criticism was directed at her turn to slavery: “back in the slave days I would’ve never been single. I am six feet tall and I am strong! I’m just saying back in the slave days my love life would have been way better. Massa would’ve hooked me up with the best brother on the plantation.” It hurts to watch the video.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom Quote: “Trump’s election could be seen as white voters reclaiming this nation as theirs.”

16. “Trump’s election could be seen as white voters reclaiming this nation as theirs.”

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