Nicole D.

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“You fight the war with guns, you fight the peace with stories.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

“This country has a long history of defining its generations by the conflicts that should have killed them.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

“Although every country thought itself superior in its own way, was there ever a country that coined so many “super” terms from the federal bank of its narcissism, was not only superconfident but also truly superpowerful, that would not be satisfied until it locked every nation of the world into a full nelson and made it cry Uncle Sam?”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer