Elsa

“But while she weebled and wobbled and leaned, she did not fall. She responded with speed and motion" (163).”
― James McBride, The Color of Water

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man