Moore: which is to say…

It wasn’t that I was too weak to simply think differently or give a middle finger to hateful people. I wanted to die, which is to say not live, which is to say not have to be strong enough all the time to fight to exist, which is to say fight at all, which is to say, I really want to live without having to fight so damn hard to exist.

• Darnell L. Moore, No Ashes in the Fire (2018)