Callie

“Having curiosity is the only way to learn.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Home

“A queen
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Thought again of the City as an algorithm: considered, for the first time clearly, that no algorithm was innocent of its designers. It couldn’t be. There was an originating purpose for an algorithm, however distant in its past—a reason some human person made it, even if it had evolved and folded in on itself and transformed.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“What if you had like a trillion dollars and could live out here in a gigantic mansion. Would you be bougie?'
'Nah, 'cause I wouldn't live out here. I'd live on a private island somewhere so I ain't gotta be bothered by nobody.”
― Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose