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“The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“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"

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

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