Jessi

“All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and condemnation and survived, smiling. These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger. •”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“A stupid man is every woman’s downfall.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City