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“Black success stories lend credence to the notion that anyone, no matter how poor or how black you may be, can make it to the top, if only you try hard enough. These stories “prove” that race is no longer relevant. Whereas black success stories undermined the logic of Jim Crow, they actually reinforce the system of mass incarceration. Mass incarceration depends for its legitimacy on the widespread belief that all those who appear trapped at the bottom actually chose their fate.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“In Euripedes's The Bacchae...Dionysus dispenses food, drink and comfort, and inspires communal energy, song and dance; he is rapture and rage, illumination and blindness.”
― Anya Taylor, Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink 1780-1830

“Images of strangled women, women in cages do not push any limits; they are a mainstream cliche of a mainstream social order. Rock music fails to live up to its subversive tradition when it eroticizes the same old establishment sadomasochism rather than playing with gender roles to make us look at them afresh”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“Courage is the key to creativity and to any relinquishing of ego structure.”
― Timothy Leary, Your Brain Is God