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“I am supposed to be touched. I can’t wait to find the person who will come into the kitchen just to smell my neck and get behind me and hug me and breathe me in and make me turn around and make me kiss his face and put my hands in his hair even with my soapy dishwater drips. I am a lovely woman. Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“Poorness never left you, she told him. It was a hunger that embedded itself into your bones. It starved you, even when you were full.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“niceness was something anyone could be, whether they meant it or not. But goodness was another thing altogether.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“After a secret’s been told, everyone becomes a prophet.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“I was born as sweet as that and if I am too sweet for your tastes then just clamp your mouth shut and spin on your heels. I can’t add sourness to my sap anymore just to fit onto a menu in a restaurant for wimps”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“Question yourself, yes, but don’t doubt yourself. There’s a difference.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

“ANOTHER THING ABOUT THE RULES

They weren't meant to be broken.
They were meant for the broken

to follow.”
― Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down

“People always love people more when they're dead.”
― Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down

“AND YOU KNOW
it's weird to know
a person you don't know

and at the same time

not know
a person you know,

you know?”
― Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down

“I know trauma uses silence as a survival mechanism.”
― Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

“I know grace and mercy was raised
by the same single mother.”
― Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

“Does black girl magic really mean,

"look at how black girl hasn't died yet"

and when she does die,
what does she become,
human?”
― Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

“What are secrets but things we want to forget? Why then would we keep acquaintance of others who remember them?”
― Cherie Jones, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

“She did not understand that for the women of her lineage, a marriage meant a murder in one form or the other.”
― Cherie Jones, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

“Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“If nobody sees you, are you still there?”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“Hope is a discipline.”
― Mariame Kaba

“When you say, “What would we do without prisons?” what you are really saying is: “What would we do without civil death, exploitation, and state-sanctioned violence?”
― Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

“You can’t get to know yourself if you can’t sit with yourself for a while.”
― Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

“See me.”
― Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

“Dad let me cry against the fabric of his shirt. I cried because I felt guilty. And helpless. And lonely and frustrated and angry. I cried because I couldn’t tell if everything was changing or nothing was.”
― Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

“Well, sometimes the people we love the most can hurt us the most.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“So remember, Sweet Pea, just 'cause someone got a roof, don't make it a home" -Janet (Ma)”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Truly yours,
Albert Camus”

I like this because only one part is usually quoted but the full quote has such symmetry.”
― Albert Camus

“Some people can't see softness without wanting to hurt it”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Become so drunk on life and love that it blinds you to the hate threatening to drown you. Chew on grief for breakfast, devour aches for lunch, inhale life’s acid, let it burn the costume he has forced upon you.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, The Weight of Blood