Michelle

“Which was correct enough, Stella supposed, but only if you were an important man. Important men became martyrs, unimportant ones victims. The important men were given televised funerals, public days of mourning. Their deaths inspired the creation of art and the destruction of cities. But unimportant men were killed to make the point that they were unimportant—that they were not even men—and the world continued on.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.”
― Colum McCann, Dancer

“Still, I had that ignorant confidence derived from the encouragement of mothers.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates

“If you are wise you step through the darkness only one foot at a time.”
― Colum McCann, Dancer