Unfollow Me Quotes

“You say progress, but maybe you mean money. You say unity, but maybe you mean money. You say revolution, but maybe you mean money. Maybe you always mean money.”
― Jill Louise Busby, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity

“In the house, there is still a grandmother and a grandfather. The grandmother still has her mind, and the grandfather still has his body. The grandmother still has her long-term memory, and the grandfather still has his part-time job. The grandmother still holds grudges, and the grandfather still holds his tongue. With age, their survival has become a joint effort, a group project with a major deadline. But maybe that’s all it ever was.”
― Jill Louise Busby, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity

“It’s not so funny anymore, the chaos that adults make. It looks different from inside.”
― Jill Louise Busby, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity

“We're stuck inside with ourselves, trying to believe the things we're supposed to say. We're performing interpersonal politics in public, more conscientious than conscious, systematic in our approach, same or shame, safe or sorry. What's the difference?”
― Jill Louise Busby, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity

“decide it’s less important than everything else because it isn’t as easy as everything else.”
― Jill Louise Busby, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity

“But you don’t shed blackness by shedding black culture. You simply end up like a black Russian doll, undressing out of yourself into infinity, always further within yourself to go. Either lost or found in self.”
― Jill Louise Busby, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity

“A giving in to motion above everything else. As if things that are still or quiet can’t change.”
― Jill Louise Busby, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity