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“The odds were against us then. Reality told us we would fail. But again and again, we fought. We persevered. We rose”
― Children of Blood and Bone

“We've been led to this moment, pushed in the tiniest, most obscure ways.”
― Children of Blood and Bone

“...I know your reason for fighting is stronger than your fear, because it's led you here.”
― Children of Blood and Bone

“Maybe you should stop hanging with maggots!”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“They don't hate you, my child. They hate what you were meant to become.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“No, life is short! You can't keep wasting our lives on people who don't value us.”
― ReShonda Tate, With Love from Harlem

“I want a man who misses me even when I’m in the same room,”
― ReShonda Tate, The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

“The smell of bitch-ass liar is nauseating.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“And I won’t roll over and let someone else take my crown. Not in a million years.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I can ‘fix' the kinks in my hair, but not the kinks in this whole system that hates me and Devon and everyone that looks like us.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“No matter what I do, no matter how much I iron down the hair that springs from my scalp, or work as hard as I can, I’m always going to be other to them. Not good enough for this place I’ve tried to call home all my life.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades