Kriti Samidi

“Kerabe?”
― Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family

“Somehow his praying and his studying made it all right to mix with them. That way, it seemed to him he could remain himself without having to remain by himself.”
― Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family

“But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late. At least on the edge of my town, among the garbage and the sunflowers of my town, it's much, much, much too late.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye