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

“If you choose to leave The Octunnumi, sever ties, that part of your life is a distant memory; dream-like.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

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

“It was the time of night when the odd feeling of not being quite in focus comes and goes, and all things are mysterious.”
― Tracy Kidder