Dee Provost

“How can you be living if you do not recognise your own power?”
― Reni K. Amayo, Daughters of Nri

“We are entrusting thousands of strangers with our innermost thoughts and feelings, and then we're expecting them to be careful with those feelings. As much as we want it to be, the Internet is not a safe space. It is not a place where we can lay our burdens down and heal. Why? Because there are too many people there who do not give an ounce of a shit about our well-being. They do not deserve our rawness, and they will not treat it with care.”
― Luvvie Ajayi, I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

“If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government,” wrote Du Bois, “it was good Negro government.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“The palace’s elite were gathered; the heads of the seven most prestigious families in the entire kingdom. Collectively they controlled the trade, water supply, finance system, and technology programmes for the entire Kingdom of Nri.”
― Reni K. Amayo, Daughters of Nri