Between the World and Me (One World Essentials)

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Good intention” is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.

So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.

my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.