Concussion Quotes

“The league lied. They had the evidence and chose to ignore it. They had the evidence at least since 2005, when one unlikely scientist, a man from nowhere who would not go away, who would not back down, found proof.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Concussion

“Just because politicians, scientists, and business execs are raging about it, and newspaper headlines are screaming it, doesn’t mean the message sticks—or that people care. It takes more than that to change a culture. In”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Concussion

“I do think there’s a mind-set—no matter how much we may want to deny it in this country—about the perception of blackness. And sometimes it’s a subconscious mind-set. Where anything associated with blackness has a negative connotation. This mind-set has a very fundamental assumption. A false assumption that black people cannot be intelligent. I”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Concussion

“motherfucking cocksucking ass-kissing bastard.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Concussion

“What happens in stories is what happens in stories: the telling and retelling simplify and reduce. History gets written in the wind that keeps blowing; if it’s not too strong you don’t even notice it. The lights are bright and there’s so much shouting and scrambling.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Concussion

“If it hurts so much that you have to bubble-wrap your body, maybe you should play something different.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Concussion

“Depression isn’t a thing that lifts or disappears just because of a change of scenery. The voice follows you no matter where you go, reminding you that you are worthless.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Concussion

“Extreme corruption steals our dignity from us as human beings and degrades us to the level of animals,”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Concussion

“Living people mess you up. Living people are messy.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Concussion