Abhimat

“Sometimes, when you don’t see yourself in the world, you start to think that you don’t exist.”
― DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

“As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or you can go the other way. You protect yourself by opening up. You don’t ask to be accepted for everything you are, just the one part of yourself that you’re willing to share.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“It turns out that there is no “right” or “wrong” way to grow into a hundred-year-old tree: there are only ways that work and ways that do not.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“Nelson Mandela once said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, “I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood