Veronica

“I, how to describe a feeling so deep it's like a river? How can a river be wrong?”
― Sapphire, Push

“I feel like my blood a giant river swell up inside me and I'm drowning. My head all dark inside. Feel like giant river I never cross in front me now. Ms Rain say, You not writing Precious. I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat to carry you to the other side.”
― Sapphire, Push

“I've illuminated the blackness of my invisibility—and vice versa.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“But the lesson I take from this is not that the lives in that novel were illusory but rather that progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.”
― Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays