Tamanna

“The images had been provided by movies, books and Pathe News, and none included a six-foot tall Black woman hovering either in the back or in the foreground.”
― Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

“Alone, seated in a strange house filled with strangers, I felt as if I were in dangerous waters, swimming badly and out of my depth. I was plankton in an ocean of whales.”
― Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

“It could be fatal, but at least all anxiety would cease. Because of that, I often rushed towards holocausts with an abandon that caused observers to think of me as courageous. The truth was, I simply wanted an end to uncertainty.”
― Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

“Going over them, he felt the joy of having acquired yet another piece of the world, of having taken his imaginary scalpel and snipped yet another strip off the infinite canvas of the universe.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being