Rachel Brown

“Who exactly are we, after all? What are we? We’re four things. We are our genetic makeup, our inclinations, talents, gifts. You can sing in tune or you can’t. We are our environment. You grow up in a loving environment or you don’t. We are our circumstances. You’re born rich in Chicago or poverty-stricken in Uganda. And we are our willpower.”
― Stevie Van Zandt, Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir

“History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes,”
― Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

“How do we stitch together a society severed by incendiary rhetoric and callous political opportunism? At a time when it’s tempting to see our neighbors as others rather than as people like us, how do we even begin to care for ourselves and our communities?”
― Brandon J. Wolf, A Place for Us: A Memoir

“I don’t know why exactly, but I’m attracted to gaps and injustice and have a missionary conversion complex that refuses to tolerate the bland, the banal, and the boring. I have some bizarre flaw that wants the world to be perfect. And colorful. And interesting. And fun.”
― Stevie Van Zandt, Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir