Heather Gadd > Heather's Quotes

“Hillbillies like to add their own twist to many words. We call minnows “minners” and crayfish “crawdads.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“Papaw’s distant cousin—also Jim Vance—married into the Hatfield family and joined a group of former Confederate soldiers and sympathizers called the Wildcats. When Cousin Jim murdered former Union soldier Asa Harmon McCoy, he kicked off one of the most famous family feuds in American history.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“Mamaw Bonnie herself was so terrifying that, many decades later, a Marine Corps recruiter would tell me that I’d find boot camp easier than living at home. “Those drill instructors are mean,” he said. “But not like that grandma of yours.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“Premenstrual Syndrome A professional woman attacked a state police officer with a heavy, blunt object after he had stopped her for DWI. Her position at trial was temporary insanity due to PMS, and it was successful.”
― Roy Hazelwood, Dark Dreams

“The men are performing their morning ritual, standing six feet apart in a long line curving off into the trees at either side.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“If, however, I understand racism as a system into which I was socialized, I can receive feedback on my problematic racial patterns as a helpful way to support my learning and growth.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“Imagine if instead, the story went something like this: “Jackie Robinson, the first black man whites allowed to play major-league baseball.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“One line of King’s speech in particular—that one day he might be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin—was seized upon by the white public because the words were seen to provide a simple and immediate solution to racial tensions: pretend that we don’t see race, and racism will end.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“What in the . . . “You can’t wake up dead,” I say. “Li’l girl, you know what I mean!” She moves from the doorway. “I’ll be waking up in Jesus’s face, trying to figure out what happened!” “Like you going to heaven,” Daddy mumbles.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“But The L0w-Down was different. L0hengrin had an incredibly upbeat personality, and an infectious brand of enthusiasm that reminded me of how I’d felt in the early days of the contest. The brief voice over that opened her show seemed to sum up her life’s philosophy: “Some people define themselves by railing against all of the things they hate, while explaining why everyone else should hate it too. But not me. I prefer to lead with my love—to define myself through joyous yawps of admiration, instead of cynical declarations of disdain.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two