Jacy Good

“Listen: we are here on earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different! —KURT VONNEGUT, TIMEQUAKE”
― Rolf Potts, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

“You are meant to have the option to comfort yourself with food. You are not a robot eating battery pellets for energy.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“In fact, no group of parents—married, single, step, or even empty nest—reported significantly greater emotional well-being than people who never had children,” she said. “It’s such a counterintuitive finding because we have these cultural beliefs that children are the key to happiness and a healthy life, and they’re not.”
― Jessica Valenti, Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness

“When geneticists compare these ethnic populations, they find there is more genetic diversity between populations within Africa than between Africa and the rest of the world. Ethnic groups in Western Africa are more genetically similar to ethnic groups in Western Europe than to ethnic groups in Eastern Africa. Race is a genetic mirage.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist