Allison Mzopera

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
― Marva Collins

“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula