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“Leakage is unconscious. We all measure the world against our own bodies.
That said, leakage is a problematic idea, at a time when historically erased identities are trying to represent themselves through their own truths. My attempt to see you will always risk blurring you with me.”
― Riva Lehrer, Golem Girl: A Memoir

“Sometimes they find a way to coax the partner who leaped to come back into the old, unsatisfactory arrangement—one involving great pain but also the comfort of familiarity. If the partner does let themselves get coaxed back, the partnership will have less trust, intimacy, and respect than before—and more anger and anxiety.”
― Resmaa Menakem, Rock the Boat

“Despite all the positive psychological attributes of hatred we have outlined, hatred destroys finally the core of the life of the hater. While it lasts, burning in white heat, its effect seems positive and dynamic. But at last it turns to ash, for it guarantees a final isolation from one’s fellows. It blinds the individual to all values of worth, even as they apply to himself and to his fellows. Hatred bears deadly and bitter fruit. It is blind and nondiscriminating.”
― Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited

“Waste men and waste women (and especially waste children, the adolescent boys who comprised a majority of the indentured servants) were an expendable class of laborers who made colonization possible.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America