Anda Weaver

“All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. "But we live in a world of laws," I said to my poor prisoner, "a world of the second best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

“From the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?”
― J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

“Disembodiment is a kind of terrorism, and the threat of it alters the orbit of all our lives and, like terrorism, this distortion is intentional.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me