Ace

“Then again, I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“That's the advice, I guess. Lord, I hope y'all make it. But just... don't let it eat you up if you don't.

We've all seen enough sadness in our time. No need for you to go off and make more of your own.

Life's too long for that. You got a trillion tomorrows.”
― Jon Bois, 20020: An American football story

“Incarceration is a sustained, lifetime lynching, meant to discard your soul and make a shell of you in plain life. Make you into your monster self, the beast that comes out when you are forced to survive in the absence of love and safety. Never mind that most of us come broken and traumatized, we still are no longer worth our own humanity. We are a criminal. We need punishment and to be rehabilitated. We need shame and exclusion. We are not worthy of control of our own lives; we are hopeless and evil. We are not individuals or of a womb or a family. We are not absent from anywhere else; because we are here, we simply non-exist. The world is better without us. In this society we are taught our crimes are the summations of our lives and define the limits of our possibility. Our only potential is to harm and destroy.”
― Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

“You got to be yourself or else you end up someone else you probably don’t like.”
― Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them