Anaghaa (theladyliterati)

“The father now dead, the now-freed son wished to build something on those acres of land that would last for centuries to come. A town for men like him, who would never be accepted as white but refused to be treated like Negroes.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“Loretta said that, a couple months ago, Cindy asked her what assassination meant. She told her the truth, of course—that an assassination is when someone kills you to make a point. Which was correct enough, Stella supposed, but only if you were an important man. Important men became martyrs, unimportant ones victims.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“I have no doubt that this is because Thanjavur culture’s upper-caste and -class associations sit comfortably with what the dominant sections of society have deemed to be ‘culture’—or ‘high culture’ anyway.”
― T.M. Krishna, Sebastian and Sons: A Brief History of Mrdangam Makers