The Past Is Beautiful Because One Never Realizes An Emotion At The Time. It Expands Later, & Thus We

“The past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

-Virginia Woolf

“Whites hold the social and institutional positions in society to infuse their racial prejudice into the laws, policies, practices, and norms of society in a way that people of color do not. A person of color may refuse to wait on me if I enter a shop, but people of color cannot pass legislation that prohibits me and everyone like me from buying a home in a certain neighborhood.”

-White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

“He’d tried believing in the Universe, which seemed sound enough until he’d innocently started reading new books with words like Chaos and Time and Quantum in the titles. He’s found that even the people whose job of work was, so to speak, the Universe, didn’t really believe in it and were actually quite proud of not knowing what it really was or even if it could theoretically exist.”

-Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

“She read about New Women. She hadn’t ever realized that she’d been an Old Woman, but after some thought she decided that titles like that were all one with the romance and the knitting and the orgasms, and the really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.”

-Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

“I was co-leading a workshop with an African American man. A white participant said to him, ‘I don’t see race; I don’t see you as black.’ My co-trainer’s response was ‘Then how will you see racism?’”

-White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

“It’s so much harder to actually define yourself and work to imagine the best possible future than it is to tear down others’ ideas.”

-An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green