Joy ✨

“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― Percival Everett, James

“Race determined when we could speak, what we could say, where we could live, how we were educated—race was the burden every Negro bore, and that verity left us with a double consciousness that we had to chart through every minute of each day.”
― Victoria Christopher Murray, Cantos Para os Meus Netos: Poemas de Victor Hugo

“Passionate people, creative and feeling people. People forced to be alone and in the dark, but who taught themselves to shine so bright they could always find each other. Sidney illuminated along with them. Us.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

“That means you’ve got what it takes, Frank. We all went through it. Nurses back in the world are second-class citizens. And, big surprise—they’re mostly women. Men keep us in boxes, make us wear starched virgin white, and tell us that docs are gods. And the worst part is, we believe them.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women