Patricia Williams

“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.”
― James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce

“Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it's irreversible.”
― James Lee Burke, Light of the World

“I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, "Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?" This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by the way, would often talk about his experience as a black man. (To which I should probably have responded, "Why not your experiences as a man or as a human being? Why a black man?")”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers