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On Friendship, Part II:

“I don’t need more friends. You got friends and all they do is ask you to help them move. Fuck that. I’m old. I’m through moving shit.”

On Silence:

“I just want silence....Jesus, it doesn’t mean I don’t like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.”

“For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.”

“Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.”

“People have always been good ay imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.”

“Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.”

“The only way I could survive my life was to exist in a fog of denial.”

“Time is the alchemy that turns compassion into love.”

“I’ve developed a program for decluttering and reorganizing your mental space by not giving a fuck, wherein not giving a fuck means not spending time, energy, and/or money on things that neither make you happy nor improve your life (annoy), so that you have more time, energy, and/or money to devote to the things that do (bring joy).

I call it the NotSorry Method.”

“You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.”

“We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”

“Although Theo knows he can’t blame his bad health on his brother, to get better he needs a break from Vincent’s gusts, his squalls, his constant talking and lecturing.”

Reminds me of someone I know. 😂

“Love doesn’t disappear when you give it away, and new love doesn’t make old love any less legitimate.”

“It seems to me that childhood ends and adult life begins the moment you stop believing your parents can rescue you.”

“Love isn’t all you need, but it’s a start, I guess.”

“Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world.”

“All I know is how to get along with books.”

Lol. Same.

“But that is another story and shall be told another time.”

“The harder feat for any fieldworkers is not getting in; it’s leaving. And the more difficult ethical dilemma is not how to respond when asked to help it how to respond when you are given so much. I have been blessed by countless acts of generosity from the people I met in Milwaukee. Each one reminds me how gracefully hey refuse to be reduced to their hardships. Poverty has not prevailed against their deep humanity.”

“Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. He reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.”

“Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on the next generation.”

“The persistence and brutality of American poverty can be disheartening, leaving us cynical about solutions. But as Scott and Patrice will tell you, a good home can serve as the sturdiest of footholds. When people have a place to live, they become better parents, workers, and citizens.”