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“Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.”
― Percival Everett

“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.”
― Sarah Kendzior

“There was no effect when non-political claims were challenged, but countering political positions triggered their amygdala. That’s the same part of the brain that’s activated when a tiger attacks you, inducing a ‘fight-or-flight’ response. People respond to opposing views as if they’re being chased by a wild animal. The amygdala overrides the prefrontal cortex, the rational part of the brain.”
― Alex Edmans, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It

“Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.”
― Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier