Sitong Peng

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“I did not ask. Later I felt bad about this. I knew, even then, that whenever I nodded along in ignorance, I lost an opportunity, betrayed the wonder in me by privileging the appearance of knowing over the work of finding out.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“The most precious thing I had then is the most precious thing I have now—my own curiosity. That is the thing I knew, even in the classroom, they could not take from me. That is the thing that buoyed me and eventually plucked me from the sea.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy