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“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

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

“Sixo says: “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.” A friend of my mind. Just thinking those words softens me.”
― 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”
― Cole Brown, Black Love Letters