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“Leos are the most caring people. You’d have to hurt my mothers feelings 7 times before she snapped.” The heart of a Leo is totally relatable.

“There are studies to explain racial divisions in health that are actually caused by social inequalities “

“Afrofuturism is an intersection of imagination, technology, future and liberation “

“If you want to know our history listen to our music”

One of the coolest things I learned was how he took to gardening and how it respected it at its most basic level. Furthermore it was refreshing hearing how he incorporates habit forming and discipline throughout his life dedicated to education.

For done reason this reminds me of octavia butlers wild seed character Doro

“There’s truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully”

“In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.
My mother-
No. Not yet.”

“Here's what I want to know. This practice of discovering witches . .. It involves the performance of certain elaborate rit-uals, does it not? The kinds of rituals someone else might call, I don't know, witchcraft, maybe?"

“We had been taught by the elders that we would recognize home by how the oxygen met our lips; by how we swallowed it without noticing that our bodies were working for this breath. We forgot what that felt like. To not wheeze exhales into the air.”

“It’s always about intention and desire. One could intend something but if it were not desired, manifestation would be thwarted.”

“Was it aww or terror that had me in a trance? The vastness of the ocean was intimidating as it was inviting. “

The Ghost ship short is a twist on the transatlantic slave trade I didn’t see coming.

“It’s just, it’s important to know where we came from. Find our roots. Find out history. Gain the sense of confidence that comes from being with those who share your story.”

“ the soul would have no rainbow if the eyes didn’t have tears, Langa.”

“Civilians remained blissfully unaware, engaged in mindless consumption amid the chaos, confident they would continue indefinitely in this finite world” sounds oddly familiar to the now. Door Chasers is an interesting short story so far.

I know I’ve found my book :“ no disrespect Mama Willow but are you all who came?’ He is cute so I laugh, but the Black ass nerve.

I click my teeth “ nigga please. I called the coven” 😂😂😂

It’s like a slow burn. 😂 waiting on my next book haul.

“There is a great deception in this. To tell “black on black crime” is to shoot a man and then shame him for bleeding.

Alluring, twisted, and riveting Octavia delivers. Her award winning pieces Bloodchild and Speech sounds were really great stories in the book however her autobiographical essay on writing, Furor Scribendi, is my favorite. Reading the afterwords are like a peek into Octavia’s mindset and opinions of her work. Typically, I don’t love short stories but Octavia finds an engaging way to tell her mystical tales..

“At its best science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow footpath of what ‘everyone’ is saying, doing, thinking—whoever ‘everyone’ happens to be this year.”