Dacia Miller

“And they are torturing Muslims, and their drones are bombing wedding parties (by accident!), and the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail. This should disgrace the country. But it does not,”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Sabbath isn't about resting perfectly; it's about resting in the One who is perfect.”
― Shelly Miller, Rhythms of Rest: Finding the Spirit of Sabbath in a Busy World

“The two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black,” said the great South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun. “And all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals.” And there it is—the right to break the black body as the meaning of their sacred equality. And that right has always given them meaning, has always meant that there was someone down in the valley because a mountain is not a mountain if there is nothing below.*”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me