Rachel Brown

“How do you grow up in a community and want nothing to do with the people who give its rich tapestry such vibrant color? How miserable is your existence when you see other before you see humanity?”
― Brandon J. Wolf, A Place for Us: A Memoir

“History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes,”
― Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

“Who exactly are we, after all? What are we? We’re four things. We are our genetic makeup, our inclinations, talents, gifts. You can sing in tune or you can’t. We are our environment. You grow up in a loving environment or you don’t. We are our circumstances. You’re born rich in Chicago or poverty-stricken in Uganda. And we are our willpower.”
― Stevie Van Zandt, Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir

“It is not the prisoner's right to open his cell that is in question, Mrs Touchet it is the gaoler's fraud in claiming to hold a man prisoner in the first place. The first is self-evident. The second, wholly criminal.”
― Zadie Smith, The Fraud