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“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“any self is always plural.”
― Leslie Jamison, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

“There’s no objective metric for how much brilliance might be required to redeem a lifetime of damage—and no ratio that justifies the conversion. Whatever beauty comes from pain can’t usually be traded back for happiness.”
― Leslie Jamison, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

“When does ordinary craving become pathology? Now I think: When it becomes tyrannical enough to summon shame. When it stops constituting the self, and begins to construe it as lack.”
― Leslie Jamison, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

“Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn,”
― Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

“The bedroom was a domain of thought in deed and a site for enacting, exceeding, undoing, and remaking relations of power.”
― Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals