Zelda

“When most folks think about the problems of growing up in the hood, they think about what it must feel like to be poor, or hungry, or to have your lights cut off. The struggle nobody talk about is what it feel like to be invisible, or to know in your heart the nobody cares. Mama didn’t want to be famous, she wanted to be seen.”
― Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat

“I knew from experience that next to jail the place with the highest concentration of trifling bitches was elementary school.”
― Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”
― Carlos Castaneda