Quotes
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- We’ve mistaken King’s nonviolence for passivity. We’ve forgotten that his approach was more aggressive than anything the country had seen—that he used peaceful protest as a lever to force those in power to give up many of the privileges they’d hoarded.May 16, 2023
- Well maybe you don’t want to do it, and maybe I don’t want to do it...but there are young women in our country who want to fly in space. And they should be given that opportunity.September 5, 2023
- Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.April 18, 2023
- I am often reminded that this, too, is part of mourning: trying to find new joy where we can.April 4, 2023
- Now I think of memories as haphazard blots of ink in a Rorschach test that we assemble along the spine of the story we are told about who we are.August 22, 2023
- And now it is difficult, having forgotten so many parts of yourself and those you love, to remember your many disremembered pieces.October 3, 2023
- Family pathology rolls from generation to generation like a fire in the woods taking down everything in its path until one person, in one generation, has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to his ancestors and spares the children that follow.May 2, 2023
- There is no American dream without American massacre. Black towns burned, native families displaced, graveyards desecrated, lands stolen, lands ruined: Here is the invention of whiteness, a violenceOctober 3, 2023
- Trauma does that to you. It steals your memory. I either couldn’t or didn’t let myself remember her or talk about her.September 5, 2023
- ...guilt is like fuel. Sitting by itself, it is useless and dangerous. Put it to action, and it is power.October 3, 2023
- Real power is about using your power to shine a light on other people so they can find their own power.August 3, 2023
- What we once deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.June 13, 2023