Jamie

“Thousands, tens of thousands, and millions right now are mobilizing to stoke those fires from below, to develop a shared faith that injustice can be opposed and justice aspired to, that human solidarity and connectedness can become a living force, that a spirit of courage can be tempered with vast feelings of love and generosity, and that a full and passionate embrace of the lives we're given can be combined with an eagerness to move forward toward a worldwide beloved community.”
― Bill Ayers, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto

“Then we talked a lot about our parents and how we didn't want to become them, but we had no other role models--or "maps," Alex kept saying. "My father is a terrible map, mostly because he doesn't ever lead me anywhere." And I thought about my parents being maps that led to places I didn't want to go--and it made a shocking amount of sense, using the word maps to describe parents. It almost made you feel like you could fold Mom and Dad up and lock them away in the glove compartment of your car and just joyride for the rest of your life maybe.”
― Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing

“There is no sound so sweet as the sound of chains that held folks back for so long falling noisily to the ground. And it's still true: Once we can reimagine and resist in significant numbers, we will rise again, reaching new heights and setting better foundations for living and loving, for building a new world.”
― Bill Ayers, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto

“The books we read in literature classes--just innocuous letters and symbols on paper, until we run the words through our brains and allow the fiction to manifest in the real world.”
― Matthew Quick, Love May Fail