Vanessa Obi

“Not tonight, good Iago. I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.”
― William Shakespeare

“No matter what happens to our bodies in our lifetimes..., they remain ours.”
― Maggie Nelson

“[S]ince I became a woman, boys were gonna follow me around more often, 'cause they could follow the trail of stars that fall from between my legs after dark.”
― Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

“The electrified fence of segregation and the centuries of shocks it delivered so effectively circumscribed the lives of American blacks that even after the current was turned off, the idea of climbing over the fence inspired dread.”
― Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures