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Valerie Jarrett
Michelle’s paternal grandfather. Dandy grew up in South Carolina during the Great Depression before moving to Chicago in what became known as the Great Migration. Michelle notes that Dandy is often irritated and bitter, but she understands that this is due to generations of oppression that had manifested itself in very limited opportunities for Dandy to work and find social mobility.
Dandy Quotes in Becoming
The Becoming quotes below are all either spoken by Dandy or refer to Dandy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 11
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I had never been one to hold city hall in high regard. Having grown up black and on the South Side, I had little faith in politics. Politics had traditionally been used against black folks, as a means to keep us isolated and excluded, leaving us undereducated, unemployed, and underpaid. I had grandparents who’d lived through the horror of Jim Crow laws and the humiliation of housing discrimination and basically mistrusted authority of any sort.
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Dandy Quotes in Becoming
The Becoming quotes below are all either spoken by Dandy or refer to Dandy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 11
Quotes
I had never been one to hold city hall in high regard. Having grown up black and on the South Side, I had little faith in politics. Politics had traditionally been used against black folks, as a means to keep us isolated and excluded, leaving us undereducated, unemployed, and underpaid. I had grandparents who’d lived through the horror of Jim Crow laws and the humiliation of housing discrimination and basically mistrusted authority of any sort.
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