Renee

“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
― John Powell SJ

“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

“Some hoarders choose to be alone because they have lost someone in the past. On the surface it looks like a hoarder wants to be alone, but the truth is the hoarder doesn’t want to get close to someone else and risk another loss or death.”
― Matt Paxton, The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter

“Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”
― Christopher Marlowe