Erin Sullivan

“Babylon was the government that had outlawed them, the police that had pummeled and killed them. Babylon was the church that damned them to hellfire. It was the state's boot at the throat, the politician's pistol in the gut. The crown's whips at the back. Babylon was the sinister and violent forces born of western ideology, colonialism, and Christianity that led to the centuries-long enslavement and oppression of Black people, and the corruption of Black minds.”
― Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

“I wrote from real life, and when Northerners advised me it was fiction, I conceited that maybe it was. What did I know—an immigrant, writing in her second tongue? Maybe my life was a fiction.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“There are moments like this, and here was not the first, when I understood why they wear on us so, why they chain us, beat us, rape us, hate us, and what I understood was that they would never have this, for all their power, their guns, their gold, they could never get to this feeling”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“What we are certain of is the overwhelming message: in all of his daughters’ dreams, Nono expressly asked for his body to be exhumed. We are to unearth Nono’s remains.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras , The Man Who Could Move Clouds