Taylor Burdiss

“Girls like me seemed to be the object of the conversations and not full participants, because we were a problem to be solved, not people in our own right.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“What sort of early interventions might have helped them before the medications took their toll, neutralizing them without curing them? And what about the thousands of people who couldn’t afford what her son had—who languish because of a lack of resources, or a stigma from a society that would prefer to pretend that people like them do not exist?”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“The Navy official, James K. Paulding, said: “When they [the slaveholders] permit such flagrant and indecent outrages upon humanity as that I have described; when they sanction a villain, in thus marching half naked women and men, loaded with chains, without being charged with a crime but that of being black, from one section of the United States to another, hundreds of miles in the face of day, they disgrace themselves, and the country to which they belong.” —”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“Yet half of young school shooters have symptoms of developing schizophrenia.”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family