salem

“What is better than believing you are heading towards love?”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“we experience love as an escape. It is a fort we build to shield the people we love from oppression and where we take ourselves to be repaired. The people we love are our safe zones. They allow us to direct our attention away from the veil and into the worlds we build together. When two or three of us gather to love or be loved, it is already implied that each of us had to work through a thing even to offer such an extension of ourselves, which makes our love stronger.”
― Cole Brown, Black Love Letters

“Black Love has always been defined by its devotion, care, and intimacy but also its resistance, its unwavering ability to persist in a world that would rather quash it.”
― Cole Brown, Black Love Letters

“Go down to the creek and keep them ghosts company. Mean as you is, they probably scared of you.”
― Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois