Ciera

“I'll never again speak to many of the people who loved me into this moment, just as you will never speak to many of the people who loved you into your now. So we raise a glass to them--and hope that perhaps somewhere, they are raising a glass to us.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“We were coloreds or Negroes, and to call someone black was to invite a fistfight. But Malcolm remade the menace inherent in that name into something mystical--Black Power; Black Is Beautiful; It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“People are like this too, you know,” he says eventually. “We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don’t have to hide them.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“This strength of feeling over classic stories being ruined wasn't around when the Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist was remade into a film in which the lead character was cast in the image of a cartoon cat.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race