Helen B

“The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it ‘ominous’ when black people even talk of having rifles? Why don’t we have the right to self-defense? Is it because maybe you know we’re going to have to defend ourselves against you?”
― James Baldwin, One Day When I Was Lost

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan

“Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“& remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds