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Prescient warning from Ressa in 2022: "I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world, and I am amazed that we have allowed our freedoms to be taken away by technology companies' greed for growth and revenues" (p. 137).

A literature filled by a profound human experience must necessarily burn at a high flame...[which]... in the hands of the oppressed...[has] the power to haunt people, to move people, and expand the brackets of humanity.

Parallels of racism: Israel & US African Americans

On education: that it is served best when rendered in wonder and not in force. An except by Ta-Nehisi Coates, from *The Message* (p. 76).

"[Am I] writing all this down because I want *my* life to matter? Maybe so. But I don't want it to matter more than others.
I want to remember, or to learn, how to live as of it matters, as if they all matter, even if they don't."

Going to movies (chapter Red House): "...[she] couldn't tolerate scenes that involve the abduction of women, especially into cars, and couldn't watch women be threatened with guns, especially guns, pointed at their heads.
"Try going to the movies with this rule, and you will be surprised at how often such scenes crop up."

"That is where his skeptical searching landed him... in the cold fact of human fallibility."

"...telling new stories..."

"No one can guarantee security and stability, which is a real bummer when you think about it. Don't think about it" (ch. 18).

Stunning and beautiful

I wanted to know my own mind.

Inside the loop of my mind...

"If your child is struggling with autism, or with the stigma of people trying to pathologize the child's gender identity, you as a parent are going to be affected, too" (p. 109).

The writing is so good: "it added a poetry to the days, transcending the mundane" (p. 68 e-book)

To see the act of learning as something not for its own sake but because of what it will get you reduces the wonder of humanity. We're thinking, feeling, art-making, knowledge-hungry, marvelous animals who understand ourselves and our world through the act of learning. It is an end in itself. It has far more to offer than the things it lets us write on application forms. It is a way to love living right now.

Excellent quote on p.91 by Justice Thurgood Marshall.

I started off listening to the audio book which was great! But I picked up the text since I prefer to fall asleep with a book in hand. OMG I'm so glad I did! The artistry and craft of the writing and it's formatting are brilliant. Very worthwhile to read off the pages!

Chapter 10

Horrifying!

Values, goals, and understandings of reality