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Tim Urban
“In 1938, blues musician Lead Belly sang a song he wrote about “the Scottsboro boys,” a group of Black teenagers who were sent to jail after being falsely accused of raping two white women on a train (one of the women later admitted it was a made-up charge). After the song, Lead Belly talked about the case and advised fellow Black Americans “to stay woke—keep their eyes open.” Stay woke. The term has been a part of the Black American lexicon for a very long time. In more recent years, the term has evolved from the way Lead Belly was using it—warning Black people to stay alert to dangerous situations that might arise—to a broader meaning about staying aware of racist systems of oppression. After the release of Erykah Badu’s 2007 song Master Teacher, with a chorus that repeated the line “I stay woke,” the term exploded into the mainstream.”
Tim Urban, What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies

Barbara Kingsolver
“No credit given for all the extra miles that take you nowhere.”
Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Olivie Blake
“Sometimes I feel like I'm just waiting for something that will never happen," he said. "Like I'm just existing from day to day but will never really matter. I get up in the morning because I have to, because I have to do something or I'm just wasting space, or because if I don' answer the phone my dad will he alone. But it's an effort, it takes work. I have to tell myself, every day, get up. Get up, do this, move like this, talk to people, be normal, try to be social, be nice, be patient. On the inside I just feel like, I don't know, nothing. Like I'm just an algorithm that someone put in place.”
Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

Milan Kundera
“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera
“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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