Meghan

“In the Land of Sky Blue Waters, they teach their young to listen, then coat the truth, so that it causes no harm.”
― Sun Yung Shin, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota

“The culture of Minnesota Nice has meant that the face of discrimination has almost always been much more subtle here. But the kind of subtlety that underlies Minnesota Nice—extreme and highly nuanced—only makes racism harder to fight.”
― Sun Yung Shin, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota

“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you’re pretending to be.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“In almost every state in the country, a perverse version of this mismatch between the population and voting power occurs when the incarcerated are counted in a process known as prison gerrymandering. In all but six states, the incarcerated residents are counted not in their home neighborhoods but in the penal institution. This means their communities have no access to the fiscal windfalls that could come from including them in the area count and no resources return to their hometowns.”
― Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America