“When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“The only monsters I have ever known were men.”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
“That's money, the substance that makes the world real. There's something so corrupt and sexy about it”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“It is a measure of how long enslavement lasted in the United States that the year 2022 marks the first year that the United States will have been an independent nation for as long as slavery lasted on its soil. No current-day adult will be alive in the year in which African-Americans as a group will have been free for as long as they had been enslaved. That will not come until the year 2111.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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