Quinta Brunson Quotes

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You never know which people, places, and experiences are going to shift your perspective until after you've left them behind and had some time to look back.
Quinta Brunson (She Memes Well)
Secrets, in the teenage girl world, are social currency tainted with poison -- they make you feel rich, but can strip you of everything.
Quinta Brunson (She Memes Well)
It took me a minute to catch on, but I realized that most of the people who showed up, 50 percent of whom I didn't know, were going straight to the bathroom to do coke. Cocaine?! In my pseudo-Christian, but mainly agnostic home?! I hadn't even done coke! If anything, I should've been the one to christen the bathroom with white!
Quinta Brunson (She Memes Well)
We, all of us, could stand to chill out and mind the business that minds us. If we spent half as much time concerned about our own villages, maybe the entire town wouldn't collapse when one house was set on fire.
Quinta Brunson (She Memes Well)
...all of the answers to this thing we call life can be found in a game where a banana is your worst enemy... If you're in first place, people will be mad about it. Being in first place in Mario Kart makes you pretty vulnerable to attacks. People want to take your spot, and they'll do anything to get there.
Quinta Brunson (She Memes Well)
At some point in every young adult's life, it's crucial to have this breakthrough, to finally see your parents as people instead of robots put on this earth to tell you what to do.
Quinta Brunson (She Memes Well)
[Social media] becomes an endless cycle of someone tweeting a thing they feel passionate about, then other people coming in and tearing apart their idea because it doesn't exactly align with their own. That's not a dialogue; it's an argument into the void.
Quinta Brunson (She Memes Well)
My whole career I’d been chasing the high of using humor to unify the masses, and here they were, the masses, unifying over something much deeper, more critical. I was floored. And as I soaked in the power of the moment, the energy of the crowd shifted. The police had shown up.
Quinta Brunson (She Memes Well: Essays)
I guess this is the part of the story where I’m supposed to tell you how he got murdered, so that you can form a logical understanding of it in your head. So you can justify why something like this would happen to a good kid. But what if there’s no logical justification? What if he wasn’t a “good kid”? What if it just happened out of the blue, in the middle of the day, for no good reason? What if I don’t owe you more details? What if I didn’t want to give you any more details than that because I have an issue with how Black death is handled in this country? I guess I don’t feel the need to lay out a full portrait of what happened, because if I write about it here, in this book, and you do nothing about it, then what’s the point of sharing this trauma? Telling stories that do not result in action turns those stories into entertainment. I don’t want to titillate anyone with the gruesome details of a tragic death.
Quinta Brunson (She Memes Well: Essays)
We all do stupid things when we're young, but some of us don't have the privilege of growing out of it.
Quinta Brunson (She Memes Well)
the ever-happening change in communication shows that we’re all always working on new ways to connect. As humanity evolves, so does our way of relating to each other. That’s nothing to be afraid of. Memes are just another way to further the necessary conversations we’re having, online and off.
Quinta Brunson (She Memes Well: Essays)