Neil

“The heartbeat of racism is denial, the heartbeat of antiracism is confession.… Denial is much easier than admission, than confession.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“According to a 2015 study by T. M. Luhrmann, R. Padmavati, H. Tharoor, and A. Osei, schizophrenics in India and Ghana hear voices that are kinder, more benevolent than the voices heard by schizophrenics in America. In the study, researchers interviewed schizophrenics living in and around Chennai, India; Accra, Ghana; and San Mateo, California. What they found was that many of the participants in Chennai and Accra described their experiences with the voices as positive ones. They also recognized the voices as human voices, those of a neighbor or a sibling. By contrast, none of the San Mateo participants described positive experiences with their voices. Instead, they described experiences of being bombarded by harsh, hate-filled voices, by violence, intrusion.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“You can’t change the facts, Gilbert, his grandmother had told him. All you can change is how you behave. In the face of them.

And possibly how you feel, she’d added gently.

It was a fleeting soft moment.

Freedom can only be found in the mind, my dear, she said. Not in the world.”
― Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

“There was nothing he wasn't willing to fail at. Besides denying his racism, it was his most American quality.”
― Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents