Anni Simati

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Something that is loved is never lost.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our glories and our sadnesses. It is at different times a lover, an enemy, a teacher, a prophet. It is always a collective memory as complicated and contradictory as people who lived it, but it is always a people’s story. Let our tale be marked by our knowledge of what had to be done, and let it shine with the passion of our attempt.”
― Joan Nestle, A Restricted Country

“Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”
― Toni Morrison