Zignorp

“All the literary young men stood up to face the portrait of Victoria. Flushed with wine, gripping each other's elbows, they sang heqrtily of what Britons never, ever, ever shall be.”
― Zadie Smith, The Fraud

“There's an anger you have. It is cool and blue and unshifting you wish it was red so it would explode from your very being. Explode and be done with, but you are too used to cooling this anger, so it remains. And what are you supposed to do with this anger? What are you supposed to do with this feeling? Some of you like to forget. Most of you live daily in a state of delusion because how else is one meant to live? In fear? Some days, this anger creates an ache so bad you struggle to move. Some days, the anger makes you feel ugly and undeserving of love and deserving of all that comes to you. You know the image is false, but it's all you can see of yourself, this ugliness, and so you hide your whole self away because you haven’t worked out how to emerge from your own anger, how to dip into your own peace. You hide your whole self away because sometimes you forget you haven't done anything wrong. Sometimes you forget there's nothing in your pockets.
Sometimes you forget that to be you is to be unseen and unheard, or it is to be seen and heard in ways you did not ask for. Sometimes you forget to be you is to be a Black body, and not much else.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson

“Sometimes women, and men, can lose their minds when they've been traumatized. Especially when they were not able to keep their children safe. That loss can be too painful to carry.”
― Diane Wilson

“It is not the prisoner's right to open his cell that is in question, Mrs Touchet it is the gaoler's fraud in claiming to hold a man prisoner in the first place. The first is self-evident. The second, wholly criminal.”
― Zadie Smith, The Fraud