Josh Weaver
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“Knowing that this kind of unmasked plutocracy can take root in democratic societies without so much as an effort to hide it is like being forced to watch your spouse cheat on you when that is not your kink.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“Hungry people want bread. The rich convene a panel of experts.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“The last thing I would do would be to cut my hair into a bob and put on a tasteful pantsuit and sit down on a morning-show set across from Meredith fucking Vieira and make money off my child’s misfortune.”
― The Woman in Me
― The Woman in Me
“Any real change,” writes James Baldwin, “implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or thought one knew; to what one possessed or dreamed that one possessed.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
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