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“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“De wife she de eyes to de man’s soul. How kin I see now, when I ain’ gottee de eyes no mo’?”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

“All these words from the seller, but not one word from the sold. The Kings and Captains whose words moved ships. But not one word from the cargo. The thoughts of the “black ivory,” the “coin of Africa,” had no market value. Africa’s ambassadors to the New World have come and worked and died, and left their spoor, but no recorded thought.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

“You can never really unlove somebody. Maybe it changes shape, but it’s there.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage