Tesia Summers

“What you’re saying is that if someone pays you enough, it’s okay to abandon what you have claimed to understand as moral and right.”
― Percival Everett, James

“Forgo the lettered cells and codes
Of long-since buried men.

Translate her braille with tender sense.
You’ll find she’s living, still.”
― Caitríona Walsh

“A spiritual posture that embraces the past while holding the present and future can be found in the word sankofa from the Akan tribe in Ghana. Sankofa means “it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot.”
― Cindy S Lee, Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation

“The human being, too, is a shining thing. We are infinitesimally bioluminescent--chemical reactions within the human body cast up photons, the elementary particle of light. The light emitted is a thousand times weaker than human eyesight, but it is constant, and clustered around the face.”
― Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures