“She once told a boyfriend about these considerations and he said, ‘You are completely out of your mind.’ She told a new friend at work and she said, ‘Honey, you’re not crazy.
Every night, I went online and checked my account balance and thought, This is what my life was worth.” -from “I Will Follow You” “The jury awarded us a lot of money, so much money we would never have to work or want.“I have spent the best and worst moments of my life looking my sister in the eye.” -from “I Will Follow You”.“It is a small miracle women do not have short memories about our rights that have always, shamefully, been alienable.” -from “The Alienable Rights of Women”.“Social networks…provide us with something of a flawed but necessary conscience, a constant reminder that commitment, compassion, and advocacy neither can nor ever should be finite.” -from “When Twitter Does What Journalism Cannot”.We can always be better, but will we ever be ideal? Do we even want to be ideal, or is there a way for us to become more comfortably human?” -from “The Politics of Respectability” “Respectability politics suggest that there’s a way for us all to be model (read: like white) citizens.
For some young black men, there is no room for error at all.” -from “The Last Day of a Young Black Man”