RICA

“. . .creating something gives agency where it feels like there is none. There is power in creation, too: the power to reframe and re-evaluate our lives in a vocabulary of our own.”
― Julien Baker, Loss Protocol Volume 1

“The sister played so beautifully. Her face was tilted to one side and she followed the notes with soulful and probing eyes. Gregor advanced a little, keeping his eyes low so that they might possibly meet hers. Was he a beast if music could move him so?”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“I am your maid. I know so much about you. But when it comes down to it: what is that you know about me?”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”
― Stokely Carmichael