Serena

“Let him guide you as to who is entitled to the most intimate parts of you”
― Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

“Sharing means that perpetual winners have to be okay losing sometimes”
― Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

“Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the way the whites see you, which turns you into your own worst”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity's potential for building a better world . . .”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West