Ms Claire

“Writing,” Toni Morrison once said, “is really a way of thinking—not just feeling but thinking about those things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic, or just sweet.”
― Ben Philippe, Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

“Peace stems from forgiveness.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“You have to weave two stories together to tell them both right.”
― Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“Earth can carry about four billion people—not seven, not eight, not nine. Not for long. And the last time there were four billion people on the planet was in 1975. We need to shrink the number of humans on the planet. There’s a simple way to do this. No person on Earth should have more than one child. A two-parent family should have no more than two children. This would stop the increase in human population—in fact, it would start to shrink it, since not every adult wants to have a child.”
― Douglas W. Tallamy, Nature's Best Hope (Young Readers' Edition): How You Can Save the World in Your Own Yard