Camille

“You have a fullness you need to bring out. It's not an emptiness you need to cover up with things.”
― Ayi Kwei Armah, Fragments

“Beware of crossing your arms in the sterile attitude of the spectator, because life is not a spectacle, because a a sea of sorrows is not a proscenium, because a man who screams is not a dancing bear.”
― Aimé Césaire

“Dammit, white folk are always giving orders, it's a habit with them. Why didn't you make an excuse? You're black and living in the South-- did you forget how to lie?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not deserve love because somebody did you wrong. You do not deserve love just because you want it. You can only earn -- by practice and careful contemplation -- the right to express it and you have to learn how to accept it. Which is to say you have to earn God. You have to practice God. You have to think God-- carefully. And f you are a good and diligent student you may secure the right to show love. Love is not a gift. It is a diploma. A diploma conferring certain privileges; the privilege of expressing love and the privilege of receiving it.

How do you know you have graduated? You don't.”
― Toni Morrison