Jocelyn Clancy

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Hate gives identity. The nigger, the fag, the bitch illuminate the border, illuminate what we ostensibly are not, illuminate the Dream of being white, of being a Man. We name the hated strangers and are thus confirmed in the tribe.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“It was the meanest moment of eternity.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy