Jetaime

“Progress doesn’t move in a straight line.”
― Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

“EVER since she saw a woodcut of a missionary surrounded by jungle natives, Ethel thought it would be spiritually fulfilling to serve the Lord in dark Africa, delivering savages to the light.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“I have never seen a person no matter what age, look, ability, height, this or that be passionate about life and not be beautiful.”
― Minna Salami, Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

“Could this approach to public health have something to do with the fact that the incarceration rate in Norway is 71/ 100,000, in the Netherlands 81/ 100,000, and the US 781/ 100,000, while the crime rate in those countries is much lower than in ours, and the cost of medical care about half? Seventy percent of prisoners in California spent time in foster care while growing up. The United States spends $ 84 billion per year to incarcerate people at approximately $ 44,000 per prisoner; the northern European countries a fraction of that amount. Instead, they invest in helping parents to raise their children in safe and predictable surroundings. Their academic test scores and crime rates seem to reflect the success of those investments.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma