Kylene Jones

“We are least ourselves when those bodies are stuck in the concrete of a city sidewalk. We are most ourselves when walking through the mountains.”
― Stephen R. Prothero, God Is Not One: A Study of Religious Diversity and Doctrinal Differences

“Alicia Garza, the cofounder of the BLM organization, pushed back against that criticism in an interview. “Standing up for the rights of Black people as human beings and standing against police violence and police brutality makes you get characterized as being anti-police or it has you being characterized as cop killers, neither of which we are.… At the same time that we can grieve the senseless loss of life of five police officers, we are also grieving the senseless loss of life that occurred at the hands of police. Those things can coexist.”
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

“Ideally, you should accept happiness as it comes, but happiness is the most relative of all emotions: no matter how happy you might be, the mind always swerves to other situations that could make you even happier;”
― S.M. Thayer, I Will Never Leave You

“She taught me that everyone had a story worth listening to. This is another way of saying that everyone has something to teach.”
― Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment