Melissa

“Privilege means that it’s easy for white women to do each other favours. Privilege means that those of us who need it the least often get the most help.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“I thought about how the world can be anything and how said it is that it's this.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“But as we have seen, hard-core drug users do not wait to be “enabled,” and there are few harsh consequences they haven’t yet experienced. There is no evidence from anywhere in the world that harm-reduction measures encourage drug use. Denying addicts humane assistance multiplies their miseries without bringing them one inch closer to recovery.”
― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction