Chanel

“You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

“How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But”
― Tananarive Due, My Soul to Keep