Folasade

“But it is only a fool who does not know that freedom is paid for in old clotted blood, in fresh reapings of it, in renewed scarifications.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“We came from somewhere—everything does. When the transition is made from spirit to flesh, the gates are meant to be closed. It’s a kindness. It would be cruel not to.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“{T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose