I think Nora comes into this thinking that love and kindness and openheartedness and her wealth can almost lift Nathan, her adopted black son, out of race, right, into class.
You might also like
What constitutes the freedom, the soul of an individual life, is its uniqueness. The reflection of the universe in someone's consciousness is the foundation of his or her power, but life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity. Only then can they experience the joy of freedom and kindness, finding in others what they have already found in themselves.
Vassily Grossman
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. And the man who has learned to hate himself completely has achieved something very nearly like freedom.
Eldridge Cleaver — Soul on Ice
Personhoods are staked on the cards dealt and not the hands played, as if we evolved the opposable thumbs of our agency for nothing. In memoirs and reality shows, across infinite Alexandrian scrolls of social media feeds, the unlucky events of life have become the currency of attention and identification.
Maria Popova