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“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?”
― Lola Akinmade Åkerström, 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.”
― Lola Akinmade Åkerström, In Every Mirror She's Black

“She deserves more credit for this. She’s just out there living her fiction.”
― Calla Henkel, Other People’s Clothes

“You have annoyed Dorian. He is not like other men.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray