Kara

“Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

“But the greatest mistake is in believing that we are 'only human… ' We are human in expression but divine in creation and limitless in potentiality.”
― Eric Butterworth, Discover the Power Within You

“You, my dear, should spend more time in a library. It's not just a hiding place, but also the place where the chases happen.”
― Jason Reynolds, Miles Morales: Spider-Man

“Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swell from all the words I’ve pressed onto them.
It almost feels like the more I bruise the page the quicker something inside me heals.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X