book.ends.lane

“People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“But even here, where nobody married dark, you were still colored and that meant that white men could kill you for refusing to die. The Vignes twins were reminders of this, tiny girls in funeral dresses who grew up without a daddy because white men decided that it would be so.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Negroes always love our hometowns,” he said. “Even though we’re always from the worst places. Only white folks got the freedom to hate home.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis