Julia

“In my first course with Mazama, she lectured on Asante’s contention that objectivity was really “collective subjectivity.” She concluded, “It is impossible to be objective.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Do you know how to pick loc–’ Rosie’s question is interrupted by Amy taking a large rock and smashing one of Scroggie’s back windows. ‘Ah, I see you do.”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders

“I had worked for a number of organizations that struggled to create meaningful opportunities for people of color, but I had never heard anyone make an overt case in favor of assimilation - particularly at an organization that promoted diversity in its mission statements and messaging. Granted, many people of color on our team had grown suspicious of those statements, suspecting that the organization wanted our racial diversity without our diversity of thought and culture.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“I fear connection," says Rosie, "and I fear a lack of connection. I fear that perhaps I am not real. That I have been imagined as so many things by so many people that my soul is now in them, and no longer in myself.”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders