Vinny

“I had never met anyone like Sam before. His life revealed to me that if you are poor, and black, with an African surname and a community of poor, black immigrants around you, parents who are not equipped to guide you, a school which expects nothing from you, except a life of crime or low-paid, unskilled labour – because of your race and class – and older children who offer you quick solutions to your safety, by joining gangs, then becoming a lawyer, say, takes something special.”
― Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

“You your best thing, Sethe. You are.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“The problem isn’t that we search for truth; the problem is that we become obsessed with our belief that we hold the truth, and we destroy entire cultures in the process.”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved