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 that don’t make sense.” “Don’t have to. It’s white folks.”
― 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

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