Cathy

“What scientists have only recently discovered is that the more familiar earthquakes, those that are easily measured while in progress and instantaneous in their destruction, are often preceded by longer, slow-moving, catastrophic disruptions rumbling twenty miles or more beneath us, too deep to be felt and too quiet to be measured for most of human history.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“unless people are willing to transcend their fears, endure discomfort and derision, suffer the scorn of loved ones and neighbors and co-workers and friends, fall into disfavor of perhaps everyone they know, face exclusion and even banishment, it would be numerically impossible, humanly impossible, for everyone to be that man.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.”
― Junot Díaz

“The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.”
― Junot Díaz