Robert Samuels

“Sis,” he said. “I don’t want to rule the world; I don’t want to run the world. I just want to touch the world.”
― Robert Samuels, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

“an all-nighter or increasing heart rates to accomplish a strenuous physical challenge—they also strain the immune system. That’s why students get sick after finals week or athletes get so sore after big games. If those cortisol levels remain high over a prolonged period, as has been found in African Americans, the strain makes people more susceptible to sickness. These discoveries called into question the thinking that bad diets and a lack of exercise caused African Americans to have higher rates of hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease. It turned out that the stress of everything, from everyday slights to fears of a deadly interaction with the police, was altering human physiology.”
― Robert Samuels, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice