Neil

“The heartbeat of racism is denial, the heartbeat of antiracism is confession.… Denial is much easier than admission, than confession.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Why are you so angry? My husband frequently asked me why I was so much angrier than other women. It always made me smile. I was exactly as angry as every other woman I knew. It wasn’t that we’d been born angry; we’d become women and ended up angry.”
― Sarah Manguso, Liars

“You can’t change the facts, Gilbert, his grandmother had told him. All you can change is how you behave. In the face of them.

And possibly how you feel, she’d added gently.

It was a fleeting soft moment.

Freedom can only be found in the mind, my dear, she said. Not in the world.”
― Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

“There was nothing he wasn't willing to fail at. Besides denying his racism, it was his most American quality.”
― Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents