Lindsey Norward

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

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

“I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“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