Barbara Brien

“We passed a pickup that was doing fifty-five in a fifty-five. Clearly a sociopath.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term “people” to actually mean.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me my own especial Dream but would break all the dreams, all the comforting myths of Africa, of America, and everywhere, and would leave me only with humanity in all its terribleness. And there was so much terrible out there, even among us. You must understand this.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“...best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands.”
― Alexandra Zapruder, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film