Alexandra

“Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation.”
― James Baldwin, Just Above My Head

“For black men of all ages it is more acceptable to express rage than to give voice to emotional needs.”
― bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love ― bell hooks' Incisive Cultural History on the Transformative Power of Love in African American Life

“Wisely, Baldwin insisted that we are always more than our pain. Not only did he believe in our capacity to love, he felt black people were uniquely situated to risk loving because we had suffered.”
― bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love ― bell hooks' Incisive Cultural History on the Transformative Power of Love in African American Life