Graham Herrli

“We internalize traits we observe in others as a way to honor and remember them. We are all living memorials.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“Colorblindness, though widely touted as the solution, is actually the problem.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“People like Jim [a defender of punch-down rape jokes] desperately want to believe that the engines of injustice run on outsized hate—stranger rapes in dark alleys, burning crosses and white hoods—but the reality is that indifference, bureaucracy, and closed-door snickers are far more plentiful fuels.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“The trouble with a lecture is that it answers questions that haven't been asked.”
― Alan Alda, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating