CJ

“The forgetting is habit, is yet another necessary component of the Dream. They have forgotten the scale of theft that enriched them in slavery; the terror that allowed them, for a century, to pilfer the vote; the segregationist policy that gave them their suburbs. They have forgotten, because to remember would tumble them out of the beautiful Dream and force them to live down here with us, down here in the world. I am convinced that the Dreamers, at least the Dreamers of today, would rather live white than live free. In the Dream they are Buck Rogers, Prince Aragorn, an entire race of Skywalkers. To awaken them is to reveal that they are an empire of humans and, like all empires of humans, are built on the destruction of the body. It is to stain their nobility, to make them vulnerable, fallible, breakable humans.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fullness of life which each man seeks”
― Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics

“Invest me in my motley. Give me leave
To speak my mind, and I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world If they will patiently receive my medicine.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Baby, the fact that you know that's funny is going to save your whole life.”
― Carrie Fisher