Danzy Senna

It__ funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, __ want to go home._ But then you come home, and of course it__ not the same. You can__ live with it, you can__ live away from it. And it seems like from then on there__ always this yearning for some place that doesn__ exist. I felt that. Still do. I__ never completely at home anywhere.

I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this __ondition_ affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the way I looked at the world and at other people.

He began to talk about the fact that race was not only a construct but a scientific error along the magnitude of the error that the world was flat. . . 'And when they discover their mistake, I mean, truly discover it, it'll be as big as when they learned the world was, in fact, round. It'll open up a whole new world. And nothing will ever be the same.

When there is a gap__etween your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself__ou are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.