Araceli Kaye

“If only ten or twenty Negroes had been put into slavery, we would call it injustice, but there were hundreds of thousands of them throughout the country. If this state of affairs had lasted for two or three years, we could say that it was unjust; but it lasted for more than two hundred years. Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Everything that counts is for love, Quoyle. It's the engine of life.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover