Hyperbolic aphorisms

Hyperbole is the quicksand of the aphorist, who would swallow the universe in a single sentence.

Steven G. Kellman, "Image Is Not Everything," American Scholar (Autumn 2019), p. 116, 117 (reviewing Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life and Work)

Each racist incident is part of something bigger

No discussion about racism is just about one incident for people of color, because we cannot divorce ourselves from the past pain of systemic racism, or the future repercussions of current abuse.

Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Want to Talk About Race (Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 2019) (orig. pub. 2018), p. 206