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

“I admired and was at times mystified that people were so confident that they knew what they wanted to have permanently inked on their bodies. When I would ask these people about their tattoos, I found out that every tattoo had some kind of story.”
― Brandy Isadora, Tattle Tales: Tattoo Stories and Portraits