Eliza

“When I say that only whites can be racist, I mean that in the United States, only whites have the collective social and institutional power and privilege over”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“people of color. People of color do not have this power and privilege over white people.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“She’d imagined their good-bye—not dramatic, they weren’t dramatic people, but some final conversation where she would see, in his eyes, the realization that he’d hurt her. She wanted to feel his regret, for leaving her, for not loving her like he was supposed to. For once in her life, she wanted an ended thing to end cleanly.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“regardless of how high-tech your society might be, “peace” is an endless negotiation among free-acting agents whose wills cannot be engineered. Politics necessarily exist between even two individuals with free will;”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy