Jacqueline

“We are in an imagination battle.

Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown and Renisha McBride and so many others are dead because, in some white imagination, they were dangerous. And that imagination is so respected that those who kill, based on an imagined, radicalized fear of Black people, are rarely held accountable.

Imagination has people thinking they can go from being poor to a millionaire as part of a shared American dream. Imagination turns Brown bombers into terrorists and white bombers into mentally ill victims. Imagination gives us borders, gives us superiority, gives us race as an indicator of ability. I often feel I am trapped inside someone else's capability. I often feel I am trapped inside someone' else's imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

“I felt a sharp pang of...something. Maybe FOMO [Fear Of Missing Out, if we have any grandmas in the house], but I don't know, it's a little more than that. Why is this bothering me so much?
8.52 p.m.
Lol, never mind. period just started. As you were.”
― Laura Steven, A Girl Called Shameless

“I was good at spewing bullshit. It's why I became a writer.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“That's like lip salve," says Pauline. "Once you start using it, your lips dry out, and so you have to keep using it.”
― Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed