Daniel

“Maybe that's what they're afraid of. Maybe they don't want these children to make up their own minds. Maybe if they did that, the world would change.”
― Walter Mosley, Futureland

“Gil says he wrote the song in the first person, rather than the third, to avoid making it sound accusatory. "If you do things in the first person, then even people with those kinds of problems can look at them because you're not talking about them. You're talking about yourself. They can look at themselves by looking at you.”
― Marcus Baram, Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man

“I don't know if our power to forget makes humans stronger, more self-destructive, or maybe both.”
― Charlie Jane Anders

“Heart, in Lagos idiom, meant guts, mettle, even recklessness, but rarely compassion. Compassion was a fatal fracturing in hearts bunkered against the city's hardness.”
― A. Igoni Barrett