Natalie

“If you were fortunate enough to be born into a family whose ancestors directly benefited from genocide and/or slavery, maybe you think the more you don’t know, the more innocent you can stay, which is a good incentive to not find out, to not look too deep, to walk carefully around the sleeping tiger. Look no further than your last”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light.”
― Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois