Letitia | Bookshelfbyla

“SAYING YES CHANGED everything. When you are all about saying no, one yes is a big deal.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“Mari looked at the woman and took a breath. “I’m an abolitionist, which means I’m interested in investing in communities to address problems rather than carceral answers that don’t serve communities at all. Murderers and rapists do great harm,” Mari said, “but the carceral institutions in this country do little to mitigate that harm. In fact, they do more harm to individuals and communities. The carceral state depends on a dichotomy between innocent and guilty, or good and bad, so that they can then define harm on their terms, in the name of justice, and administer it on a massive scale to support a capitalistic, violent, and inherently inequitable system.” And though this was what she said, and had said so many times, a part of her even then understood what this reporter was getting at. There were some people who she did not think should be released. Her father had been one of them.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“I remember seeing that picture and realizing that photographs weren’t real. There’s no context, just the illusion that you’re showing a snapshot of a life, but life isn’t snapshots, it’s fluid. So photos are like fictions. I loved that about them. Everyone thinks photography is truth, but it’s just a very convincing lie.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for changing it.” —Ken Keyes Jr.”
― Tracy Litt, Worthy Human : Because You Are the Problem and the Solution