Michelle Easson

“We are the memories we don't remember, which live in us, which we feel, which make us sing and dance and pray the way we do, feelings from memories that flare and bloom unexpectedly in our lives like blood through a blanket from a wound made by a bullet fired by a man shooting us in the back for our hair, for our heads, for a bounty, or just to get rid of us.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“If guns don't kill people, why do mass killers arm themselves with guns?”
― DaShanne Stokes

“We stayed because the city sounds like a war, and you can’t leave a war once you’ve been, you can only keep it at bay”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“When a country with less than five percent of the world's population has nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and makes up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings, it's time to stop saying guns make us safer.”
― DaShanne Stokes