Rick Ellison

“All children belong to somebody, I thought. Or at least they should.”
― Steve Pemberton, A Chance in the World

“The worst disease is the treatment of the Negro,” he wrote in 1946. “Everyone who freshly learns of this state of affairs at a maturer age feels not only the injustice, but the scorn of the principle of the Fathers who founded the United States that ‘all men are created equal.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“The Chancellor studied the man in front of her. She’d known him for decades. Seen his rise through the ranks. Seen his great fall. And seen him put himself together again and go back to doing a job that was far more than a job for him. It was written on his face.”
― Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds

“We are not contained between our hats and boots.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful