Zara

“It’s one thing to be looked at, and another to be seen.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“What you're trying to say is that it's easier for you to hide in your own darkness, than emerge cloaked in your own vulnerability. Not better, but easier. However the longer you hold it in, the more likely you are to suffocate.
At some point, you must breathe.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“The patriarchal family made its appearance, founded on the sole and personal property of the father, who had become head of the family. Within this family the woman was oppressed.”
― Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

“I had no explanation for the deaths of some and the hatred of others. Perhaps this was what war meant: understanding nothing.”
― Gaël Faye, Petit pays