Brandon Broussard

“Loving others, therefore, is not a question so much of “doing God’s will” but, rather, of “living God’s life.”
― Paul F. Knitter, Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian

“There are few sins greater than the ones we commit against ourselves in the name of others. The things that push us further away from who we are, and closer to the image people demand.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays

“A person is a whole person when they are good sometimes but not always, and loved by someone regardless. I love the people where I'm from because they would fight to humanize me if I died violently on film. We would do this for each other, despite anything in our pasts, because no one else would do it for us. We know that we are more than only good and only bad, despite what happens to the names of the dead after they are no longer around to speak them.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous