Leena

“I didn’t always have things, but I had people—I always had people.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Disembodiment is a kind of terrorism, and the threat of it alters the orbit of all our lives and, like terrorism, this distortion is intentional.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Poetry was the processing of my thoughts until the slag of justification fell away and I was left with the cold steel truths of life.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“And for so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. But this has never been an option because the Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made from our bodies.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me