Petra

“Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“This is what we're like. We are broken individuals, committing to what will be a broken union in a broken world.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am

“I'm an intelligent pessimist, a pessimist who has occasional flashes of optimism. Nearly everything happens for the worst, but not always, you see, nothing is ever always, but i'm always expecting the worst, and when the worst doesn't happen, I get so excited I begin to sound like an optimist.”
― Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1

“White people are so used to seeing a reflection of themselves in all representations of humanity at all times, that they only notice it when it’s taken away from them.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race