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“Waste men and waste women (and especially waste children, the adolescent boys who comprised a majority of the indentured servants) were an expendable class of laborers who made colonization possible.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

“A white mob massacred some sixty black people in Ocoee, Florida, on Election Day in 1920, burning black homes and businesses to the ground, lynching and castrating black men, and driving the remaining black population out of town, after a black man tried to vote.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“Sometimes they find a way to coax the partner who leaped to come back into the old, unsatisfactory arrangement—one involving great pain but also the comfort of familiarity. If the partner does let themselves get coaxed back, the partnership will have less trust, intimacy, and respect than before—and more anger and anxiety.”
― Resmaa Menakem, Rock the Boat

“Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation.”
― Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent