Erin Sullivan

“He wanted to exude authority and power, but these were qualities he did not have. They were, as it happened, the very air that Mami breathed.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“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 conceded 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

“War always takes it upon itself, unsolicited, to find us an enemy. Even though I wanted to remain neutral, I couldn’t. I was born with this story. It ran in my blood. I belonged to it”
― Gaël Faye, Petit pays