Shannon

“I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoiled things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it’s not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?”
― Malorie Blackman, Naughts & Crosses

“What’s most important in this life is invisible.”
― Christine Leunens, Caging Skies

“Why do some details become “history”—included in schoolbooks, in scholarly dissertations, or in personal narratives—while other details are forgotten? What scale of information do we accept when we say that we know something about the past?”
― Glenn Kurtz, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film

“The supposed rights of the unborn hold no moral suasion in a society that is willing to consign children who are born alive to poverty, malnutrition, and toxic air and water.”
― Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution