Caroline

“I don't think it's an invisible chromosome, or the inability to get pregnant, or anything else, that makes people so cruel to transgender folks. I think what they hate is difference. What they hate is that the world is complicated in ways they can't understand. People want the world to be simple.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“The white man brought racism into the world. He used it as a basis of conquest. It is always easier to conquer a more humane people.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“We know the secret of making art, while they only know hte minor secret of making mischief. We proceed from joy, they only have their misery.”
― Tony Kushner

“One of our neighbors was a lifetime welfare recipient, but in between asking my grandmother to borrow her car or offering to trade food stamps for cash at a premium, she’d blather on about the importance of industriousness. ‘So many people abuse the system, it’s impossible for the hardworking people to get the help they need,’ she’d say. This was the construct she’d built in her head: Most of the beneficiaries of the system were extravagant moochers, but she – despite never having worked in her life – was an obvious exception”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis