Jamie

“Power will never self-sacrifice away from its self-interest. Power cannot be persuaded away from its self-interest. Power cannot be educated away from its self-interest.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

“Because these conflicts, these wars, would not be for God. They would be between gods. And the gods would be us.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked : A Book About Hope

“Them that can't be killed by knives or bullets usually break their necks falling off a porch or something.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove : A Novel

“What lives in folk memory is truer than how some artsy poet says it. In folk memory evil always predates good.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked