Marina

“Love happened. Love came to show you that you could be more than you could ever imagine, because love forced you out of the narrows of yourself and thrust you into a vastness that stretched from one end of time to the other. Nothing mattered except being in the presence of love, the greatest beauty of all.”
― Julius Lester, Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“De man dat built things oughta boss it. Let colored folks build things too if dey wants to crow over somethin’.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God