Arianna

“Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Something was making poor people poor, according to this idea. And it was welfare. Welfare "transforms the individual from a dignified, industrious, self-reliant spiritual being into a dependent animal creature without his knowing it," U.S. senator Barry Goldwater wrote in The Conscience of the Conservative in 1960. Goldwater and his ideological descendants said little to nothing about rich White people who depended on the welfare of inheritances, tax cuts, government contracts, hookups, and bailouts.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“[T]hat’s the thing about American governmental intervention: When it’s effective, it’s enveloped in a narrative of “American ingenuity and hard work”; when it’s ineffective, it’s proof of the fundamentally immoral nature of government assistance.”
― Anne Helen Petersen

“God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust