Veronica

“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

“Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“There is this thing that distance does where it subtracts warm and context and history and each finds that they are arguing with a stranger.”
― Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

“Girls with fire in their bellies will be forced to drink from a well of correction till the flames die out.”
― Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky