Marianne

“But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“This is the grief that makes our kind choose to be stones and trees rather than flesh.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Be roses that grow in the concrete.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give