"I don’t want to hear you say, 'Honey, I’m behind you.' Well, move. I don’t want you back there because you could be 200 miles behind. I want you to say, 'I’m with you.' And we’ll go up this freedom road together." - Fannie Lou Hamer, activist and humanitarian (b.1917-d.1977)
I love public libraries because they are built on the principle that books are so important and so necessary to human flourishing that access to them cannot depend on your income.
“Nothing in the past can be changed or restored. But the present can change the way it is thought about. In this new enactment, presence can replace absence, which is the best that can be managed in human time.”
— Louise Glück
"College is a purchased loyalty oath to an imagined employer. College shows you are serious enough about your life to risk ruining it early on. College is a promise the economy does not keep."
“i realize i don’t know very much. none of us knows very much. but we can all learn more. then we can teach one another. we can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.”
—octavia butler, “parable of the sower”