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"It wasn't a good idea to speak without putting a great deal of thought into it. Words could be snares. Less of them you laid out there, less likely they could trap you up.”

It seemed to her to be one of the few times in her life when she didn't say what she thought.

-Olive K, age 82

The things we protest against the most are often the things we need to look at.

I felt as though I were about to fight something bigger than myself, even though I knew that within me is where the true battle resided.

Just before climbing Muir Pass

The United States is one of only seven countries in the world that do not provide paid maternity leave - joining the company of Papua New Guinea, Suriname and a handful of other island nations.

Diversity is the best way to defend equality. If people from diverse groups are not making the decisions, the burdens and benefits of society will be divided unequally and unfairly - with the people writing the rules ensuring themselves a greater share of the benefits and a lesser share of the burdens of any society.

Education determines who thrives

"The best hit makers are gifted at creating moments of meaning by marrying new and old, anxiety and understanding. They are architects of familiar surprises."

Like Ariana Grande’s 7 Rings - a familiar melody in an original setting.

Whatever is happening isn’t important. The important thing is how you explain it to people.

Whatever is happening isn’t important. The important thing is how you explain it to people.

And then one day, when he become rich man himself, you gunno buy from better store. You gonno buy his clothes, you gonno buy all you clothes from better, better store. Fine white people store lika Target.

All writing is about looking and listening and paying attention to the world.

A gardener is always a futurist with a vision of how a small, humble plant will spring up and blaze in time.

People who feel powerless tend to believe in conspiracies carried out by the powerful. About half of Americans believe in some form of conspiracy theory.

I wish I could have known him as a child in his newness. I want to see him with the sheen of perfection, with skin unscathed by his mistakes or by his father’s. It’s in my nature to love him. And I can’t love who he was, but I can see him as a child.

So I did what you do if you’re a writer and you’re obsessed about something: you turn it into a story that you hope will lay it to rest, or at least help you figure out what it means.

Poetry aims for an economy of truth—loose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts.

We’re a lot stronger than we think we are.

Music has no color. In music there is only one rhythm. Only one heart.

...the same rhythm for everyone.

I had to find the courage to start saying no to things I didn't want to do because once you turn thirty, pretending starts taking a toll on your immune system.

...but anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn’t read enough books.

Hope is the belief that better things are possible. Regret shows us what those better things we hope for are.