The Year of the Witching

by Alexis Henderson

We have broken ourselves to be together. The fragments of me fit with the fragments of you, and our remnants have become greater than the sum of who we used to be.

The woman is a cunning creature. Made in the likeness of her Mother, she is at once the creator and the destroyer. She is kind until she is cruel, meek until she is merciless.

A man who knows his past is a man with the power to choose his future.

“I’m saying that it’s difficult, often impossible, to undo what’s already been done. When you make a mark, it’s there forever. It can be altered but never fully erased.”

To be a woman is to be a sacrifice. —FROM THE WRITINGS OF TEMAN, THE FIRST WIFE OF THE THIRD PROPHET, OMAAR

Sometimes I feel like we’re just rehashing the past all over again. I hate feeling that we’ve gotten this far only to become what others have already been before us.”