Dee Provost

“It’s more than pretty, child, it’s true. You cannot buy life, you cannot hide and wait to live it later; you must live and you must live now, because you have no other choice.”
― 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

“She had heard of some women, particularly those of the lower ranks, receiving a slap after doing such things. The thought of that made Sinai’s blood boil; she almost wished a man would try that with her.”
― Reni K. Amayo, Daughters of Nri