Isatou Gaye

“And now”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“How it was not the grotesque mounting of a decapitated animal that shook you—but that the taxidermy embodied a death that won’t finish”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“don’t think that’s necessarily what Baldwin is saying. I think he just means that we should fortify ourselves with love when we approach them. It’s more about our own state of grace”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“But that act (a son teaching his mother) reversed our hierarchies”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous