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“Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness.”
― Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony

“The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!

“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn’t. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn’t let her. She didn’t believe it herself so she stepped across into a whole other country.”
― Dionne Brand, What We All Long For

“So much had fallen into the sea. Hats fell in to the sea. Hearts fell into the sea. So much had fallen into the sea”
― Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light