Lynn

“As Atul Gawande writes, 'We end up with institutions that address any number of societal goals ... but never the goal that matters to the people who reside in them: how to make life worth living when we're weak and frail and can't fend for ourselves any more.”
― Nicci Gerrard

“Suddenly Americans feel self-conscious of their white identity and this self-consciousness misleads them into thinking their identity is under threat. In feeling wrong, they feel wronged. In being asked to be made aware of racial oppression, they feel oppressed. While we laugh at white tears, white tears can turn dangerous. White tears, as Damon Young explains in The Root, are why defeated Southerners refused to accept the freedom of black slaves and formed the Ku Klux Klan. And white tears are why 63 percent of white men and 53 percent of white women elected a malignant man-child as their leader.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“Similar to writing, the story of the self is true in each particular telling. We change, the story unfolds and changes, but the telling itself is eternal.”
― Tessa McWatt, Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

“I recognized that the racialized liberalism in which I was educated--where we strive for a bigger part of some mythological pie that our fractured identities are in competition for--leaves us without a language with which to talk about inequality. It leaves black and white in perpetual opposition, a state that feeds the plantation mentality.”
― Tessa McWatt, Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging