Rianna Jade

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
― James Baldwin

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin