Andrea D

“I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human. And I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

“I know trauma uses silence as a survival mechanism.”
― Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

“We were both getting what we needed, though I could have done without him. It turned out he could not do without me. He likened his relationship with me to Icarus. He was Icarus and I was the sun. Lines like these, which I wholly believed and still do, made me sick to my stomach. What kind of a girl wants to be a sun over a country she doesn’t even want to visit.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“Momma prays like she’s talking over God, and if God were to talk back she wouldn’t even hear Him.”
― Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home