Eliza

“We have an original anxiety that stems from feeling we’re missing something, that there’s more to life, that we need to know where and how we connect with life. But to sit with our true selves causes another anxiety, a lonely, exposed anxiety. Then, if we flee this sitting with ourselves, we encounter the anxiety of, well, knowing that we’re fleeing ourselves and truth. It’s”
― Sarah Wilson, First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety—A Personal Memoir of Self-Discovery

“Not naming the groups that face barriers only serves those who already have access; the assumption is that the access enjoyed by the controlling group is universal.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“To interrupt white fragility, we need to build our capacity to sustain the discomfort of not knowing, the discomfort of being racially unmoored, the discomfort of racial humility.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“It was strange, learning the contours of another’s loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers