Seemingly small but impactful interactions reinforce what most minorities already know, which is that our kind of difference is often looked at as something that needs a workaround. So often our experience has included being required to be a reflection of normalcy so when people look at us, they're never faced with having to work at understanding what it is they are seeing.
-- Andrea Krystal, Can Black People Grow Hair?, p. 57
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