Oluchi

“I came to the realization that every moment exists in perpetuity regardless of whether it’s remembered. What has happened has happened; it occupies that moment in time forever. I was an eleven-year-old girl lying in the grass one summer. I knew in that moment that was true and recognized that I would blaze through moments for the rest of my life, forgetting things, and becoming ages older, until I forgot everything—so I consoled myself by committing to remember that one moment.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“We are all part of the same story, each of us different chapters. We may not have the power to choose setting or plot, but we can choose what kind of character we want to be.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Black didn't crack, but it did level up.”
― Claire Kann, Let's Talk About Love

“Black people have to be perfect, inhumanely good at everything, and even then we can fail, because that's the way the system is set up. It is rigged against us.”
― Claire Kann, Let's Talk About Love