Seuleeping

“Jane's father once told her that white people believed, deep in their hearts, that Black people would all choose to become white if they could. But Black people didn't want to be white, he had told her. They only wanted to have what white people had. He had said race was always about money, and money was always about race. That's what white people didn't understand. Black people wanted only a big yellow Victorian on the hill, not to be the white people who lived there.”
― Danzy Senna, Colored Television

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Die Tränen der Welt sind eine konstante Größe: Für jeden, der aufhört zu weinen, fängt woanders jemand an.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”
― Noam Chomsky