Lindsey Norward

“You look like an accident going somewhere to happen”
― Richard Wright, The Outsider

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

“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

“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