Jaksen

“If you want to be truly just in this life, when you see people who are weak, you must stand with them. Because you are strong, and it is the weak who need you more, not the strong.”
― Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

“The only road to equality—a sense of common humanity; peace—is sharing, my mother’s orange. When we share, you are not using your privilege to get me to line up behind you. When we share, you are not insisting on being my savior. Claire and I always looked for the sharers, the people who just said, “I have sugar, I have water. Let’s share”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“Poverty makes a crime of every indulgence.”
― George Gissing, The Nether World

“Her silences spoke louder than her words, and the one that followed merely reprised what I already knew without providing any connecting bits to help me make a song of the scattered verses.

[RICHARD ETHERIDGE, referring to his mother]”
― David Wright Faladé, Black Cloud Rising