Niambi

“I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...”
― Jodi LaPalm, Still Life

“The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...”
― W. E. B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk & Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 & Movements of the New Left 1950-1975

“In all your getting, get understanding.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Hush

“I am neither I nor the other one
I am something in between”
― Mário de Sá-Carneiro