“Anger is an acceptable form of grief. You don’t have to make your emotions palatable to those who are unmoved. Rage isn’t the curse, apathy is.
In the absence of relief, our collective conscience can atrophy. You begin to believe this is the way it has to be. Resist. Dehumanization of the suffering is by design, but it is not an inevitable one.”
—Cole Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies, January 2024