Joy ✨

“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

“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

“This is the gift of Harlem—the dress, the music, the language. It isn’t possible to live here and not begin to breathe and bleed this place.”
― Victoria Christopher Murray, Harlem Rhapsody

“People come through that door to heal. That’s all. To heal.”
“Is that why you think I’m here?”
“Why else would you? They’re gone. Now you got no excuses for who you can be. So who you gonna be? Same as you were? Or everything you would’ve been otherwise?”
― Cebo Campbell