Nancy

“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves the single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, slaughtered - is this the essential of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“Seeing race is not the problem. Refusing to care for the people we see is the problem.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“I had not been prepared for the simple charm of watching someone you love grow.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“Do you want to live a long, healthy, and prosperous life? Don’t smoke. Exercise. Eat right. But also take good care of your interpersonal relationships and the way you deal with life’s inevitable upsets and traumas. Your mind-set, your coping strategies, how you navigate challenging circumstances, your capacity to transcend distress, your capacity to love – these things, I believe, are also a matter of life and death.”
― Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History