Amanda

“There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo