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“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

“There is nothing loving or caring about a close parent-child relationship when it services the needs and feelings of the parent rather than the child.”
― Kenneth M. Adams, Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners

“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

“A white mob massacred some sixty black people in Ocoee, Florida, on Election Day in 1920, burning black homes and businesses to the ground, lynching and castrating black men, and driving the remaining black population out of town, after a black man tried to vote.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents