Cristel > Cristel's Quotes

“Everything I know about my family’s history, I know in fragments. We are the keepers of secrets. We are secrets ourselves. We try to protect each other from the geography of so much sorrow. I don’t know that we succeed.”
― Roxane Gay, Ayiti

“So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“Our superpower, I was told since I was a child, was perseverance, the ability to survive no matter how much they took from us. I never understood how surviving was our collective superpower when white folk made sure so many of us didn't survive. And those of us who did survive practiced bending so much that breaking seemed inevitable.”
― Kiese Laymon, Heavy

“For a few seconds, I remembered that the most abusive parts of our nation obsessively neglect yesterday while peddling in possibility. I remembered that we got here by refusing to honestly remember together. I remember that it was easier to promise than it was to reckon or change.”
― Kiese Laymon, Heavy

“The half-life of love is forever.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“... a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115”
― Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World