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“She had never entirely let go of the notion that if she reached far enough with her thoughts she might find someone waiting, that if two people were to cast their thoughts outward at the same moment they might somehow meet in the middle.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Most Black lesbians were closeted, correctly recognizing the Black community's lack of interest in our position, as well as the many more immediate threats to our survival as Black people in a racist society. It was hard enough to be Black, to be Black and female, to be Black and female, and gay. To be Black, female, gay, and out of the closet in a white environment, even to the extent of dancing in the Bagatelle, was considered by many Black lesbians to be simply suicidal.”
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
“Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.”
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
“If one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything. Some things can't be forgiven.”
― The Kiss of Deception
― The Kiss of Deception
“We are all migrants through time.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
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