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“People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time”
― Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things

“Coming home to someone is many things. It is a literal action, an abstract idea, a physical feeling. It is more than the sound of the key turning in the door and the voice that calls from the porch. It is a choice, a promise, a declaration. It is a return, not as a person to a place, but as oneself to another. It is one person saying to another person: You are the one I choose.”
― Tania De Rozario, And the Walls Come Crumbling Down

“And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things

“Time and again, racist ideas have not been cooked up from the boiling pot of ignorance and hate. Time and again, powerful and brilliant men and women have produced racist ideas in order to justify the racist policies of their era, in order to redirect the blame for their era’s racial disparities away from those policies and onto Black people.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America