Tim Hart

“Be born then, gasp wind, screech at the surgeon’s slap, seek manhood, taste a little godhood, feel pain, give birth, struggle a little while, succumb: (Dying, leave quietly by the rear exit, please.)”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“White people who wished to think well of themselves did not use the language of racial insult in front of black people. But the problem for us white people, as we finally had to understand, was that we could not be selectively complicit. To be complicit at all, even thoughtlessly by custom, was to be complicit in the whole extent and reach of the injustice. It is hard for customary indifference to utstick itself from the abominations to which it tacitly consents.”
― Wendell Berry, Andy Catlett: Early Travels

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated