Sadrach Pierre

“Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.”
― Erving Goffman

“Life is essentially one long search for an ashtray.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Your personal will is the web your disease sits and spins in. The will you call your own ceased to be yours as of who knows how many Substance-drenched years ago.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances. We construct a stigma-theory, an ideology to explain his inferiority and account for the danger he represents, sometimes rationalizing an animosity based on other differences, such as those of social class.”
― Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity