Hilario Morales

“Valuing ourselves rightly means we understand love to be the only foundation of being that will sustain us in both times of lack and times of plenty”
― bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love ― bell hooks' Incisive Cultural History on the Transformative Power of Love in African American Life

“The idea of being in love, or wanting it, seemed conducive to pretense. Everyone pretended to be something they weren’t until someone uncovered it.”
― Dan Skinner, A Summer of Guiltless Sex

“Wisely, Baldwin insisted that we are always more than our pain. Not only did he believe in our capacity to love, he felt black people were uniquely situated to risk loving because we had suffered.”
― bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love ― bell hooks' Incisive Cultural History on the Transformative Power of Love in African American Life

“One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
― Omar El Akkad