Stevie Ada

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“From what I can tell, the chief distinguishing factor between children and adults is that children hear everything while appearing not to and adults hear nothing while pretending to listen.”
― Stephen McCauley, Insignificant Others

“Writing is drawing, drawing is writing. Because it's the same gesture. They're close already.”
― Etel Adnan