Janet Richards

“To be listened to is healing,”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.”
― James Baldwin

“This is the promise of Genesis 1. The darkness is limited by the light. Suffering is not in perpetuity. The light may take generations to come, but it will come. There is always hope.”
― Lisa Sharon Harper, The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right

“And the fact that we are still here is no testament to the goodness of the country. We are not here because our country, and the people of this country, have been exceptional at becoming more loving, and more honest, and less violent. No, we are here because we refused to believe their lie that our lives don’t matter, and that we should accept our suffering, and the best parts of ourselves are what can survive whiteness and terror.”
― Danté Stewart, Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle