“Germans love applause”—she looked down at her own moving hands—“to the point where it hurts.”
“However, for me, based here in Sweden, the soil isn’t even fertile enough to allow Black women to thrive and grow. So, how could I transparently address Black joy when we’re still not confronting the problems that prevent Black women from thriving here?”
― In Every Mirror She's Black
― In Every Mirror She's Black
“The world asks so much of us Black women, and we’re tired of being held to triple standards.”
― In Every Mirror She's Black
― In Every Mirror She's Black
“For socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“You have annoyed Dorian. He is not like other men.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“She deserves more credit for this. She’s just out there living her fiction.”
― Other People’s Clothes
― Other People’s Clothes
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