Gemma

“I’ve run out of language to explain the avalanche of anguish I feel when faced with this world, and so if I can’t make sense of this planet, I’m better off imagining another.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

“The biggest joke in religious studies is that cult + time = religion.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

“History, both the arm holding down the drowning body and the voice claiming the water is holy.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

“I am easy as a woman, taut as a man. All my limbs is broke as a man, and fixed good as a woman. I lie down with the soul of woman and wake with the same. I don't foresee no time where this ain't true no more.”
― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End