Danya

“She knows that the woman is not in Brooklyn, standing on Flatbush Avenue, but home. She went crazy in America, her mind halting in the loneliness, anxiety, and the soundlessness of things falling apart: a sweet surrender. What a relief it must be, Patsy thinks, to stare into the eyes of sorrow and break without the pretense of holding it together.”
― Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn, Patsy

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

“A tree with strong roots laughs at storms.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, The Night Masquerade

“If we really mean to respect people in their maturity, then we must acknowledge them as fully formed individuals with long histories; we must be prepared to see them as they are, to recognize that a shit is a shit, young or old.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake