Stephanie

“To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy

“I've come to see the American Dream for what it really is: a lie my parents had little choice but to buy into and sell to me, a lie that conflated working hard with passing for, becoming, and being white.”
― Jennine Capo Crucet, My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

“Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy

“I've put up with too much, too long. And now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything les”
― Cisneros, Sandra