Serdzhan

“If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”
― John Donne

“Because of the slave trade you lose your mother, if you know your history, you know where you come from.” To lose your mother was to be denied your kin, country, and identity. To lose your mother was to forget your past.”
― Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

“On the slave route, it is no different. It all begins with apocryphal tales of knights and prince, with searches for Utopia, quest for fabled kingdoms, visions of the Garden and premonitions of the Fall.”
― Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

“Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had behaved to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering, and somewhat broken voice”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde