Tami

“Black woman hard to laugh, for she must keep it secret and quiet-like for all white man suspicious of negro mirth.”
― Marlon James, The Book of Night Women

“i have what i have and i am happy i’ve lost what i’ve lost and i am still happy - outlook”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“what I preferred
was not statues but the bird in the statue's hair.”
― Derek Walcott, Omeros

“Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,
for the eternal idleness of the imagined return,
for rare flutes and bare feet, and the August bedroom of tangled sheets.”
― Derek Walcott