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“I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.”
― Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism

“Raven has always been nice in the same way vanilla is nice but you’d rather have cookie dough.”
― Jessica Goodman, They'll Never Catch Us

“That’s how it has always been. Ayoola would break a glass, and I would receive the blame for giving her the drink. Ayoola would fail a class, and I would be blamed for not coaching her. Ayoola would take an apple and leave the store without paying for it, and I would be blamed for letting her get hungry.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

“Jess liked all of her liquor to taste like aluminum pouches of Capri Sun.”
― Claire Jimenez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez