Josh Weaver

“How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one’s attention.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“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.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

“Starvation and dignity do not mix well.”
― Matthew Desmond, 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.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys