Lindsey Norward

“Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.”
― James Baldwin

“I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“Wisely, Baldwin insisted that we are always more than our pain. Not only did he believe in our capacity to love, he felt black people were uniquely situated to risk loving because we had suffered.”
― bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love

“Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.”
― Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Collected Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper