Walter

“Life isn't simple; it's overwhelmingly complex. The love of simplicity is an escapist drug, like alcohol.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Seeing race is not the problem. Refusing to care for the people we see is the problem. The fact that the meaning of race may evolve over time or lose much of its significance is hardly a reason to be struck blind. We should hope not for a colorbind society but instead for a world in which we can see each other fully, learn from each other, and do what we can to respond to each other with love.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“We will destroy the tyranny of the dull. But we can't destroy it with guns. Or whips. Violence is the dullard's Breakfast of Champions, and the logical end product of his or her misplaced pride. Violence fertilizes that which we would starve. But Debbie, we can't love the dull away either. We only pollute our own waters when we try to extend our true affection to those who don't know how to accept love or to give it. Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Who becomes a social pariah and excommunicated from civil society and who trots off to college bears scant relationship to the morality of crimes committed.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness