Marigold Bookhound

“I am not going to die. I choose to be alive; I choose to let everything else go. It continues to be hard and heartbreaking, as sacrifices always are, but I spent so much of my life afraid of unfurling, afraid of all the things other people feared in me. There are only a few decades left before I go home; I don't want to waste them being folded. I am choosing the new life.

I don't know what it's going to look like, other than brilliant perhaps to the point of excruciation, but I intend to wake up every morning and find out.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir