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“I came to make peace with you, even if you are the father of lies. You're my father,' she said.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“If you take a seed, [...] and scatter it across the lands, some will end up in marshes, some in rich fertile lands with flowing streams, others in sand, and others among the mountains and rocks. If the seed is tough, it will adapt and survive in all conditions; if it is weak, it will perish. The same seed in one country may yield a baobab but in another an oak. Our race is a potent seed. Whether you are from Ghana or Guyana, you are born of the same seed and you will be of the same fruit. We must recognize our fruition in London, in Paris, in Dakar, in Harare, and in Maputo. Our roots are deep and wide. We must extend our hearts and minds, like bridges, over the swamps of racial injustice, to link us together.”
― Nozipo Maraire, Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter

“And human as Orpheus perhaps, I stopped and glanced back.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“They invented Satan, didn’t they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned