Arlene♡

“The secret ain’t about the motor. That’s part of it, yeah, but that ain’t the main thing. The real thing, the thing most people don’t want to talk about, is how you drive. If you drive like you scared, you gonna lose. If you drive like you don’t want to have to rebuild the whole engine, you gonna lose. You gotta drive like don’t nothing else matter except getting to that line. Drive like you fucking stole it.”
― S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

“Loving, worshipping, and bowing down to folks who harmed you was written into the genes of all animal creatures. To be alive meant to lust after connection, and better to have one with the enemy than with no one at all. A baby's fingers and mouth grasp on instinct.”
― Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

“Sheriff, I’m wanted everywhere—but not by the law.”
― Beverly Jenkins, A Chance at Love

“Uniformity is not unity. Silence is not peace.”
― Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer