Jaclyn Hillis

“The influx of the religious right changed how they conducted politics. You were either right or wrong, good or evil. That call to arms may have worked for a church, but a democracy requires a balance, even a debate. It needs compromise,”
― Curtis Chin, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir

“You are with yourself every day, all day, all night—might as well like yourself.”
― Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

“I needed to do better. I needed to stop judging and remember that previous offenders were like many of us—worthy of another chance.”
― Janae Marks, On Air with Zoe Washington

“What is known is that in 1805 in the dead of night a group of white landowners, chafing at the limits of their own manifest destiny, set fire to the last remaining indigenous village on the teardrop-shaped peninsula that would become Charon County. Those who escaped the flames were brought down by muskets with no regard to age, gender, or infirmity. That was the first of many tragedies in the history of Charon. The cannibalism of the winter of 1853. The malaria outbreak of 1901. The United Daughters of the Confederacy picnic poisoning of 1935. The Danforth family murder-suicide of 1957. The tent revival baptismal drownings of 1968, and on and on. The soil of Charon County, like most towns and counties in the South, was sown with generations of tears. They were places where violence and mayhem were celebrated as the pillars of a pioneering spirit every Founders’ Day in the county square.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed