Keenan

“Feeding people half-truths or bullshit to make them feel better (which is almost always about making ourselves feel more comfortable) is unkind. Not getting clear with a colleague about your expectations because it feels too hard, yet holding them accountable or blaming them for not delivering is unkind. Talking about people rather than to them is unkind.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“connection and inclusion versus busyness and exhaustion.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“Everyone has prejudice and discriminates, but structures of oppression go well beyond individuals. While women could be prejudiced and discriminate against men in individual interactions, women as a group could not deny men their civil rights. But men as a group could and did deny women their civil rights. Men could do so because they controlled all the institutions.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“I’ve spent my whole life avoiding the people Jesus spent His whole life engaging”
― Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People