Mattie Johnson

“That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.”
― Walter Mosley, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

“anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings

“All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.”
― George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light