Echo C

“White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“...I had an acute sense that the walls were closing in on "real" Christians... For the first time in my life, I felt like a persecuted minority.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“The scientific research is very clear that experiencing trauma without control can be debilitating. But I also worry about people who cruise through life, friction-free, for a long, long time before encountering their first real failure. They have so little practice falling and getting up again. They have so many reasons to stick with a fixed mindset. I see a lot of invisibly vulnerable high-achievers stumble in young adulthood and struggle to get up again. I call them the “fragile perfects.” Sometimes I meet fragile perfects in my office after a midterm or a final. Very quickly, it becomes clear that these bright and wonderful people know how to succeed but not how to fail.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance