Desie

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
― Assata Shakur

“He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved