This was a book that wanted to be written. In many ways, those things dragged me along through the process. A lot of things aligned to make this book possible. I don't know if I thought the book needed to be written as much as the book demanded that I write it. But I can't say that with 100% certainty. I believe it's the Toni Morrison quote that goes, “write the book that you want to read.” I would like to think that that is what I set out to do when I started writing THICK. What made you feel that THICK was a book that needed to be written? Thus, it is a lifelong challenge to resist those things that would pull me away from being a critical thinker.ģ. But, like any other capacity, I had to develop it and continue to have to develop.Īs your life changes, there will be new sets of circumstances designed to limit your freedom, your time, or your curiosity and will therefore negatively impact your critical thinking skills. Because we were readers, I was predisposed to critical thinking. And to be curious in a way that respects other people's humanity. And a person cannot be a voracious reader and not have the capacity for unyielding curiosity.Īt the foundation of being a critical thinker desire to know the capacity to be curious about not just the world but about other people. However, we valued thinking and education and independent thought and rationality in my home. I would not have had the language when I was growing up to consider myself a critical thinker, not with the weight I ascribe to “critical thinking” now. Your ability to articulate “ intersectionality” is admirable, growing up would you have considered yourself to be a critical thinker, or was this developed over time? It is important to talk about both sides of that dynamic.Ģ. To take up space, for some people that is a very radical thing.Īt the same time, it would be really radical for some people who have inherited space that they have not earned to cede space to others would also be very political. We grant space based on what a person has inherited or how much money a person has to spend or how much the person conforms to our idea of who should be in charge of the world.
We do not allocate space to people based on their gifts or their talents or their humanity. And we make these systems in this unequal way. There are a lot of structures, norms, behaviors, and people who coordinate belief systems that require some people to make themselves smaller to the benefit of other people having space to become larger. What does it mean to you to be “unapologetically ‘thick’”?
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