“Once the woman decided to get free, she had also decided to stay free... The older Jo =got, the more he understood about the woman he called Ma. The more he understood that sometimes staying free required unimaginable sacrifice.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“I looked plenty close, Mireille, and saw many beautiful things but I also saw terrible things. I can’t pretend otherwise. You shouldn’t expect me to.” “Right,”
― An Untamed State
― An Untamed State
“but the older he got, the better he understood; forgiveness was an act done after the fact - a piece of the bad deeds future - and if you point the people's eyes to the future they might not see what is being done to hurt them in the present.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“What kind of bodies are movable and feasts. What color are visions.”
― There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
― There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
“It's dope to be black until it's hard to be black.”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
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