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“Dealing with this system on its own terms is complicated by the problem of denial. Few Americans today recognize mass incarceration for what it is: a new caste system thinly veiled by the cloak of colorblindness. Hundreds of thousands of people of color are swept into this system and released every year, yet we rationalize the systematic discrimination and exclusion and turn a blind eye to the suffering. Our collective denial is not merely an inconvenient fact; it is a major stumbling block to public understanding of the role of race in our society, and it sharply limits the opportunities for truly transformative collective action.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“..the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Disappointment is a beautiful woman reading Ayn Rand.”
― Geraldine Brooks, The Best American Short Stories 2011