Derek

“The point was that maybe humans thought they were exceptional but they were maybe never anything more than animals, doing anything more than animaling.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“He'd always wanted better words for what it felt like to live, and to suffer, and to love it all so recklessly as to hate how it couldn't love you back the same.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“In the end, some problematic leaders are really just followers of the larger system. But a truly, destructively cultish leader is one who wishes to overthrow the system and replace it with something that grants them ultimate power.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

“Conflict is inevitable, and our allies are not disposable. We need to fess up to mistakes when we make them, and apologize when we’ve hurt someone, but we also need to abandon a culture of resorting to public humiliation, exile, and shunning of anyone who slips up.”
― Sim Kern, Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation