Ashley

“After him I learned, that sometimes, it takes two men to do, the work of one woman.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“We stayed, like prisoners, only we chose to be prisoners and we loved our prison; it was not a bad prison. And when things only got worse in our country, we pulled our shackles even tighter and said "We are not leaving America, no, we are not leaving.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“I, too, live in the time of slavery, by which I mean I am living in the future created by it.”
― Saidiya Hartman

“Grief expressed out loud, whether in or out of character, unchoreographed and honest, for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.”
― Martin Prechtel, The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise