Big Red

“Soon the smoke will drift over the river, and with it, the shepherds' first exposure to that smell: a smell like sick pork cooked slow, a smell that some would describe as having a taste, too, one that lingered in the back of the nose, at the base of the tongue, a taste not unlike licking a very old library book.”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

“The dimensions of racism benefiting white people are usually invisible to whites. We are unaware of, or do not acknowledge, the meaning of race and its impact on our own lives. Thus we do not recognize or admit to white privilege and the norms that produce and maintain it.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“It’s a beautiful country, she’s been told, depending on who you are.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Every grain of rice you leave behind is one maggot you eat in hell.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous