“No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.”
― Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
― Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
“I'm through with you. Yes, I am going to put you down. From now on, I am my own God. I am going to live by the rules I se for myself. I'll discard everything I was once taught about you. Then I'll be you. I'll be my own God, living my life as I see fit. Not as Mr. Charlie says I should live it, or Mama or anybody else. I shall do as I want in this society that apparently wasn't meant for me and my kind. If you are getting angry because I am talking to you like this, then just kill me, leave me here in this graveyard dead. Maybe thats where all of us belong anyway. Maybe then we wouldn't have to suffer so much. At the rate we are being killed now, we'll all be soon dead anyway.”
― Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
― Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
“You never live with a woman, you live inside of her, I overheard my father say to my brother once, and it was, indeed, as if, when peering into the mirror, you were blinking out through her thickly fringed eyes.”
― Her Body and Other Parties
― Her Body and Other Parties
“I feel simultaneously intensely insignificant and hyperaware of how important everyone is.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.”
― Ninth House
― Ninth House
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