Calla Kessler

“A literature fueled by a profound human experience must necessarily burn at a high flame, and thus a 'material handicap' is transformed into a 'spiritual advantage,' putting in the hands of the oppressed 'the conditions of classical art,' which is to say the power to haunt people, to move people, and expand the brackets of humanity. This is as true for those laboring under the shadow of enslavement as it is for those laboring under the shadow of apartheid.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates