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“The wisdom that comes with age was needling, he found, because it brought the clarity of hindsight without the means to change anything.”
― Patrick Ryan, Buckeye

“Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can't empathize with your own self? Is the core of healing empathy and courage?”
― Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

“We're not changing history…We're telling history by telling the full story, more of the story of everyone who lived here, not just certain people who were able to tell their stories.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“From the window, we saw a group of two dozen men in white-and-blue sweatshirts with garden hoes methodically rising in their hands and then falling to the earth. Their bodies were set against a backdrop of trees that had tumbled into autumn, draping them in a volcanic sea of red and orange. It had been one thing to see Black men laboring in the fields of Angola in photographs but it was quite different to see it in person. The parallel with chattel slavery made it feel as if time was bending in on itself. There was no need for metaphor; the land made it literal.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America