Britt

“With racist teachers, misbehaving kids of color do not receive inquiry and empathy and legitimacy. We receive orders and punishments and “no excuses,” as if we are adults.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“But more and more Memphis had begun to ask himself if there had ever been order, or if order was one more myth people repeated so they didn’t have to think too much about the violence lurking just under the surface of every polite exchange, every façade of “civilization.” And just whom did “order” serve?”
― Libba Bray, The King of Crows

“The awful truth was that if she could have stopped loving her mother, she would have.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“You look like a Quaker,” Mercy said with disapproval.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent