Fatima

“Active racism is telling a nurse supervisor that an African American nurse can’t touch your baby. It’s snickering at a black joke. But passive racism? It’s noticing there’s only one person of color in your office and not asking your boss why. It’s reading your kid’s fourth-grade curriculum and seeing that the only black history covered is slavery, and not questioning why. It’s defending a woman in court whose indictment directly resulted from her race…and glossing over that fact, like it hardly matters.”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“Well, maybe we set high expectations for the people in our lives and when they don’t live up to those expectations, we feel betrayed and it feels like it was all a lie. But it’s not a lie. It’s just that we’ve built up this perspective in our head. And our perspective lets us down.”
― B.F. Queen, The Chance

“The world does not belong to:
one class, one gender,
one race, one tribe,
one religion, nor one nation,
nor one people.
The world belongs to everyone.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere