Danielle Swain

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”
― Noam Chomsky

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”
― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah