Tonya Rogers

“Arguments continue over what constitutes true “identity politics” as a philosophical construct, a public policy imperative, or a flawed means of picking candidates based solely on external characteristics rather than the candidate’s own merit. Rather than engaging in a false choice, I opt to short-circuit the debate with a more simplistic view: identity is real and necessary and intertwined in our politics in such a way that there is no going back.”
― Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

“The EAVS data highlighted the top culprits for rejected absentee ballots7: Arizona: 10,769 rejected Florida: 21,973 rejected Georgia: 13,677 rejected Ohio: 10,189 rejected”
― Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

“Moreover, because only Maine and Vermont allow the incarcerated to vote, prisoners in every other state have no political voice. To put a finer point on it, America’s mass incarceration has led to thousands of black and Latino bodies from Democratic-leaning areas being counted in rural white communities that are typically Republican, where most of the penal facilities are located.”
― Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

“I grew up around people who were distrustful of science, who thought of it as a cunning trick to rob them of their faith, and I have been educated around scientists and laypeople alike who talk about religion as though it were a comfort blanket for the dumb and the weak, a way to extol the virtues of a God more improbable than our own human existence. But this tension, this idea that one must necessarily choose between science and religion, is false. I used to see the world through a God lens, and when that lens clouded, I turned to science. Both became, for me, valuable ways of seeing, but ultimately both have failed to fully satisfy in their aim: to make clear, to make meaning.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom