

“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings

“As he left, I peered at Sarah Mapps and her mother, the way they grabbed hands and squeezed in relief, and then at Nina, at the small exultation on her face. She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinions of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning the Fates had been. Nina was one wing, I was the other.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings

“In writing The Invention of Wings, I was inspired by the words of Professor Julius Lester, which I kept propped on my desk: “History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”
― Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
― Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

“It has come as a great revelation to me,” I wrote her, “that abolition is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
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