Marianne

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“There is almost no way to prepare for how beautiful a place becomes just before you go.”
― Meg Fee, Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

“Funny how it works with white kids though. It’s dope to be black until it’s hard to be black.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“My son loved working in the neighborhood," One-Fifteen's father claims. "He always wanted to make a difference in the lives there."

Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give