Anika

“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl

“Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“there have been times when I have thought, if the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light, I would willingly sink with it.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin