Arnold hamilton

“I guess it’s worth pointing out the obvious—that the very governors and politicians who loudly exalt the values of free speech are among the most aggressive prosecutors of “divisive concepts.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying,” James Baldwin once wrote, “because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“But I know how sadness can exert its own gravity, growing more powerful the longer it holds you.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“It only takes one person to make a change,” you are often told. This is also a myth. Perhaps one person can make a change, but not the kind of change that would raise your body to equality with your countrymen.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me