Neada

“they had not yet been destroyed as Africans completely. Slavery was the curse of their existence; but they had not been robbed yet of that which had been characteristically theirs. They tolerated the baptism and modest garments imposed on them by the French Catholic laws; but in the evenings, they made their cheap fabrics into alluring costumes, made jewelry of animal bones and bits of discarded metal which they polished to look like gold; and the slave cabins of Pointe du Lac were a foreign country, an African coast after dark, in which not even the coldest overseer would want to wander.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“There was nothing like their will to survive and to protect. They were truly the most vicious and loyal creatures ever born. And she had callously thrown that away for a group of bitches who lacked all understanding of real loyalty.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dragonbane

“This is home until I can escape it, you’ve suddenly realized that you know Tonkee. You’ve known her, on some level, all along. “Binof. Leadership. Yumenes,” you snap, and each word seems to hit Tonkee like a blow. She flinches and takes a step back, then another. Then a third, until she’s pressed against the apartment’s smooth crystalline wall. The look on her face is one of horror, or perhaps sorrow so great that it might as well be horror. Past a certain point, it’s all the same thing. “I didn’t think you remembered,” she says, in a small voice. You get to your feet, palms planted on the table. “It’s not chance that you started traveling with us. It can’t be.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire