Shannon

“Instead of going higher, instead of looking at the ideals the Reconstruction Amendments represent, originalists again try to hobble them by limiting them to what dead white people may have thought.”
― Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

“What’s most important in this life is invisible.”
― Christine Leunens, Caging Skies

“The downside of erasing history is that you lose what’s beautiful as well as what’s hard to bear.”
― Burkhard Bilger, Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

“I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoiled things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it’s not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?”
― Malorie Blackman, Naughts & Crosses