Othoob

“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“The root of the black man's hatred is rage,
and he does not so much had the white man
as simply as want the out of his way,
and, more than that,
out of his children's way.

The root of the white man's hatred is terror,
a bottomless and nameless terror,
which focuses on this dread figure,
an entity which lives only in his mind.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

“It is not a racial problem. It is a problem of whether or not you're willing to look at your life and be responsible for it, and then begin to change it.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

“The root of the black man’s hatred is rage, and he does not so much hate white men as simply wants them out of his way, and, more than that, out of his children’s way.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro