"Separation is not always segregation." — Ibram Kendi How to Be an Antiracist

"One of racism’s harms is the way it falls on the unexceptional Black person who is asked to be extraordinary just to survive—and, even worse, the Black screwup who faces the abyss after one error, while the White screwup is handed second chances and empathy." — Ibram Kendi How to Be an Antiracist

"Racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to racist ideas. Racist ideas make White people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas." — Ibram Kendi How to Be an Antiracist

"The journey you travel on your feet is less important than the distance you cover in your head." — Mishka Shubaly

"People and decisions and time and circumstance will align themselves in the most astounding ways if you loosen your grip, if you allow things to form naturally, to flow into whatever reality they tend toward." — Carolyn Highland Out Here: Wisdom from the Wilderness

"If your bag is packed full before you leave, there is no room to tuck in the treasures you find along the way." — Carolyn Highland Out Here: Wisdom from the Wilderness