Bobbi

“I couldn’t say what lingered beneath those words: This is my family. This is my blood.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“Still, I would dream of decaying faces. For days, I would dream.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“The Florida Highway Patrol Drug Courier Profile cautioned troopers to be suspicious of “scrupulous obedience to traffic laws.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Psychologists have long observed that when people feel hopelessly stigmatized, a powerful coping strategy—often the only apparent route to self-esteem—is embracing one’s stigmatized identity. Hence “black is beautiful” and “gay pride”—slogans and anthems of political movements aimed at ending not only legal discrimination, but the stigma that justified it.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness