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“Sociopaths are liars who manipulate toward a desired outcome, but they tend not be as callous as psychopaths. Psychopathy can be genetic, the structure of the brain, and it can include chemical and physical components—a lesion on a particular part of the brain, not unlike the sociopath—but it’s marked by more-aggressive, remorseless traits: where a sociopath might manipulate, the psychopath attacks”
― Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth

“The dominance of the faith-based industrial complex is a Catch-22 for communities of color that lack adequate social welfare services and educational and recreational spaces under an American capitalist system that essentially outsources these services to private organizations and tax-exempt nonprofits.”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

“Blackness is not just black straight men. There are gay men in this work doing amazing work. There are queer folks. There are trans folks. There are gay and lesbian folks, bisexual…. There are atheist black people.”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

“D. Frederick Sparks”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical