Bilqees (thebellekeys)

“Chantelle has three older brothers. Their parents are divorced, so they spend the weekdays at their mother and stepfather’s house, and the weekends at their father’s house. She says that it’s fun to belong to two places. I know what she means.”
― Bilqees Mohammed, Juanita : A bilingual children's book set in Trinidad and Tobago

“Dummies, every single one of us. The gifted ones most of all.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“The way she only inhabited the person she thought of as herself if she was feeling someone else’s pain. Their grief. Their anger. Their debilitating joy. Their delusory love. Their cruel and unrelenting fate. How beautifully she could carry the suffering of others, wearing their misery so she didn’t have to acknowledge her own...Translating the human experience which was itself full of badness, so that she never had to hold her own badness for too long.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“People always ask me what is my favourite thing about Trinidad. It is a hard question because ! love the beaches and the music of Trinidad, but...
I think the food is the best of all!”
― Bilqees Mohammed, Juanita : A bilingual children's book set in Trinidad and Tobago