Nicole

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“... if you give it wings, it wants to fly away. ”
― Billy Merrell, Talking In The Dark : A Poetry Memoir

“It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.”
― James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother