Drew Austen

“Both the segregationists and the assimilationists think there is something wrong with Black people and that’s why Black people are on the lower and dying end of racial inequity. The assimilationists believe Black people as a group can be changed for the better, and the segregationists do not. The segregationists and the assimilationists are challenged by antiracists. The antiracists say there is nothing wrong or right about Black people and everything wrong with racism. The antiracists say racism is the problem in need of changing, not Black people. The antiracists try to transform racism. The assimilationists try to transform Black people. The segregationists try to get away from Black people.”
― Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

“To know the past is to know the present. To know the present it to know yourself.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

“Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979