So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

Change the narrative, change the laws.

we can't afford to do anyone harm because we owe them our lives each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs our enemies are the very air in disguise you can talk a great philosophy but if you can't be kind to people every day it doesn't mean that much to me it's the little things you do the little things you say it's the love you give along the way

I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.