Alicia

“In the case of personality, most psychologists agree that there are five traits that are essential in how people look at us: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“He relayed a saying from a story his father used to tell him: "A child is a child when he's a child, even if he's a prophet.”
― Malala Yousafzai

“When our elders presented school to use, they did not present it as a place of high learning but as a means of escape from death and personal warehousing. Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail. This should disgrace the country. But it does not, and while I couldn't crunch the numbers or plumb the history back then, I sensed that the fear marked West Baltimore could not be explained by the schools. Schools did not reveal truths, they concealed them. Perhaps they must be burned away so that the heart of this thing might be known.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“We meant well. We tried our best. "Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me