Read Between the Time

“used to think that there would one day be a vaccine: that if enough black people named the virus, explained it, demonstrated how it operates, videoed its effects, protested it peacefully, revealed how widespread it really is, how the symptoms arise, how so many Americans keep giving it to each other, irresponsibly and shamefully, generation after generation, causing intolerable and unending damage both to individual bodies and to the body politic—I thought if that knowledge became as widespread as could possibly be managed or imagined that we might finally reach some kind of herd immunity. I don’t think that anymore.”
― Zadie Smith, Intimations

“I think the drink will kill her, and I feel like it's my fault."
"Aye. It probably will kill her," she said, much as if she were only discussing the weather.
"But like I said, it's a slow road, and there's nothing you can do to help her.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“Splitting the difference is wearing one black and one brown shoe, so don't compromise. Meeting halfway often leads to bad deals for both sides.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

“When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps.”
― Jonathan Sacks, Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence