Personal Stories Quotes

“You see, when you clump people together and don’t understand their personal stories, you can make up any bullshit and convince yourself it’s the truth.”
― Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

“...perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?”
― Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

“In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior.”
― Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine