Folasade

“I held my breath, but it didn't feel like I was holding my breath, it felt like there should never have been breath. It felt like the entire concept of breath had been something I imagined. After all, my body was never meant to move like this. These lungs had to have been built for show. They should never have expanded and I should never have been alive.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“The world in my head has been far more real than the one outside—maybe that’s the exact definition of madness, come to think of it.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen”
― 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