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“She followed them underwater until she could no longer breathe and swam back for air. Until she could no longer see anything in those depths.
Until she no longer had strength to keep diving down. And she tried. Swimming, screaming, fighting. She tried her very best. To drown herself along with them. To feel what they felt. As she had been trying to all her life.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

“No one else wanted to be a black person in America. And everyone knew that fact, however cruelly the result played itself out. No matter the worry in their lives, they could all but count on a voice, redemptive and default, Whispering as a comfort to their hearts: At least I'm not them. And so they carried on, the injustice of it as natural and inconvenient to their lives as a bit of rain.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“I suppose anything sounds righteous wher
you pay it enough respect.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants