Amina Uyetake

“Hydarnes: When we attack today, our arrows will blot out the sun!
Leonidas: Good; then we will fight in the shade.”
― Frank Miller, 300

“Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Yet at least we can admire the wise Prearrangement which has ordained that, as they have no hopes, so they shall have no memory to recall, and no forethought to anticipate, the miseries and humiliations which are at once a necessity of their existence and the basis of the constitution of Flatland.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“Jolly Jay rested the Louisville Slugger on his shoulder, as if he were Thor or some other god-like warrior who had come down from the heavens to our Deus ex machina rescue.”
― Mark Barkawitz, Full Moon Saturday Night