Wendy Browne

“America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to our bosom; we feed America, we make love to America. There wouldn't be an America if it wasn't for black people. So you have some dedicated black Americans who will die a million deaths to save America. And this is home for us. We don't know really about Africa. We talk it in a romantic sense, but America is it. And so, America is always going to be okay as long as black people don't totally lose their mind, cause we'll pick up the pieces and turn it into a new dance.”
― Abiodun Oyewole

“Anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, and other forms of racism persist in part because of the idea that there is one version of history, which white people have exclusive dominion over. It is expressed through the Eurocentric dismissal of oral histories and the reliance on the written word as irrefutable truth. It is expressed through an almost scientific reliance on the “white encoders of history” to tell us “truths,” even when we accept that there are obvious reasons as to why we should not rely on white supremacist historians to teach us Black or a Indigenous history”
― Sandy Hudson, Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters