Emily Pickell

“What I didn’t realize was that wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without admitting that we want it.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“But the price of error is
higher for you than it is for
your countrymen, and so
that America might justify
itself, the story of a black
body’s destruction must
always begin with his or
her error, real or imagined...”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world, before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape, and disease. The nakedness is not an error, nor pathology. The nakedness is the correct and intended result of policy, the predictable upshot of people forced for centuries to live under fear.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“I was born in February, but I come alive in October.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments