Tiffany

“But you don’t love something because you’re blind to its faults, right? You love it despite its flaws.”
― Thrity Umrigar, Honor

“It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“In the immortal, and terrifyingly true, words of Margaret Atwood, ‘Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid …’” “‘That men will kill them,’” we say in unison.”
― Damien Angelica Walters, The Dead Girls Club

“When I was growing up, my parents had created for my brother and me the perfect upper middle-class lifestyle. We had everything we needed, and most things we wanted. We took piano lessons. We went to summer camp. We swam at the local country club. We had college funds. And while what I should have learned from living a relatively privileged childhood was the value of hard work and frugality, what I learned instead was that money was not something with which I needed to be overly concerned. If and when I needed it, it would magically appear. Like a genie.”
― Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats