Jamie Nesbitt

“At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door.”
― Kalisha Buckhanon, Conception

“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”
― Roger Ebert

“We know what we are, that we walk like we are not long for this world, that this world has never longed for us.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

“I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.”
― Roger Ebert