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“The traumatized person is often relieved simply to learn the true name of her condition. By ascertaining her diagnosis, she begins the process of mastery. No longer imprisoned in the wordlessness of the trauma, she discovers that there is a language for her experience. She discovers that she is not alone; others have suffered in similar ways. She discovers further that she is not crazy; the traumatic syndromes are normal human responses to extreme circumstances. And she discovers, finally, that she is not doomed to suffer this condition indefinitely; she can expect to recover, as others have recovered...”

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Judith Lewis Herman

Judith Lewis Herman is an American author renowned for her work in the field of psychological trauma. Her writings delve deeply into the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the effects of traumatic experiences on individuals and society. more

“This entire experience, although seemingly harmless in the grand cosmic scheme of life, was a perfect microcosm of the American dream. The good minority earned his rank by beating up the bad minority--a tale as old as the founding of this country. You try to gain as much proximity to whiteness and as much distance as you can from Blackness or the villain of the day, in order to become accepted by the mainstream.”

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Book:Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

Source: Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

“Like most of this country’s marginalised people, I can’t afford to forget that, in America, both the dream and the nightmare can be true all at once, back to back.”

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Author:Yaa Gyasi

“Like most young people in Ghana’s rural areas in those days, for much of my childhood I pictured America as a heavenly place where neither poverty nor any of the myriad problems we saw all around us existed. From what little history I was taught in elementary and middle school, I knew about slavery and how Blacks in America were treated during that era, but I also knew that slavery had long since been abolished. What I envisioned was an America in which people of all races lived happily and in perfect harmony.”

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Book:The Boy from Boadua: One African’s Journey of Hunger and Sacrifice in Pursuit of a Dream

Source: The Boy from Boadua: One African’s Journey of Hunger and Sacrifice in Pursuit of a Dream

“Oh, another day, another dime. Another day in America. Another day, another dollar. Another day in America. And oh my brothers and oh my long lost sisters. How do we begin again? How do we begin?”