Nicole O

“America, while you were asleep another woman mourned her dead black lover’s bullet-ridden body, as his baby cried for her father’s life.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“I’d never been to Colombia. Yet in a way, I felt like I’d gone a dozen times. That’s because my parents kept Eric and me connected to their homeland. They played the music, prepared the foods, told us stories from their childhoods.”
― Diane Guerrero, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

“That’s when communication fails: when people start making assumptions. Don’t infer I feel something based on something I never said.”
― Brandi Reeds, Trespassing

“my love has been known to perform miracles.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada