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“Being brave isn't the same as being okay," my mum said quietly.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

“There are times when so much talk or writing, so many ideas seem to stand in the way, to block the awareness that for the oppressed, the exploited, the dominated, domination is not just a subject for radical discourse, for books. It is about pain – the pain of hunger, the pain of over-work, the pain of degradation and dehumanization, the pain of loneliness, the pain of loss, the pain of isolation, the pain of exile... Even before the words, we remember the pain.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“The road to recovery is not linear. It’s not straight. It’s a bumpy path, with lots of twists and turns. But you’re on the right track.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

“she saw him as poetry”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown