“I didn't choose for my job to be a secret, Nasnet said. It's ironic, though. Society makes it so and then they try to oust you and ostracize you for the secret they have demanded and imposed in the first place.”
― Silence Is My Mother Tongue
― Silence Is My Mother Tongue
“You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other. Nickel”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
“That he had outwitted Nickel because he got along and kept out of trouble. In fact he had been ruined. He was like one of those Negroes Dr. King spoke of in his letter from jail, so complacent and sleepy after years of oppression that they h ad adjusted to it and learned to sleep in it as their only bed.”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
“how the internet is built to distend our sense of identity; second, how it encourages us to overvalue our opinions; third, how it maximizes our sense of opposition; fourth, how it cheapens our understanding of solidarity; and, finally, how it destroys our sense of scale.”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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