Matt

“I will not use this particular blue again.”
― D.A. Powell, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys

“Perhaps his life might have veered elsewhere if the US government had opened the country to colored advancement like they opened the army. But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“The strength of my body has been reduced to my body alone; I can't seem to see it in the things I say or do or need anymore.”
― Eva Baltasar, Boulder

“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder