You've Got a Place Here, Too Quotes

“The best thing about being at an HBCU is that you don't really have to find your community. 'Cause it's all of us. You just have to find your tribe. It's like we're all cookies, but what kind of cookie are you?”
― Ebony LaDelle, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“The thing about a slow burn is even with all that logic, the agony you feel of wanting what you want doesn't go away.”
― Ebony LaDelle, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“There's a particular kind of torture to the waiting, the pining, the slowest burn, like setting fire to wet logs. One that flickers and pops like grease in a pan. Wondering if you'll yearn for him all four years.”
― Ebony LaDelle, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“Their eyes meet again. A question, a response. An understanding.”
― Carla Bruce, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“I got you. I got you. For this horizon and tomorrow's.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“But being alive in a new puppy love
and being dead to the world went hand in hand, I
learned.”
― Ebony LaDelle, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“All of my imaginings about Melody
were like sketch drawings in comparison to the vividness of her.

And I imagined a lot, but not her warmth, her sweetness,
her love for her family, her plans to go into space engineering.

She laughed from her belly and it would shake her whole body.
She hummed when impatient, she cursed loudly

when she was happy. I collected all these moments of her,
filled in my thought sketches with color and texture, painted her
portrait

in my mind. I don't ever want to forget, I thought,
the fullness of this woman.”
― Ebony LaDelle, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“I felt the ghost print of her fingers long after she'd taken her hands away.”
― Ebony LaDelle, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“After class, if she got out early, sometimes I'd catch
her
downstairs writing up her notes. And she'd smile
and I had to bite back every single corny thing I'd ever
wanted to say, like: All off me is an invitation reaching toward you, or
my fingertips ache where they haven't touched your skin or
I hear the promise of us in the crescendo of every ballad
and maybe I was supposed to be a bachatero instead of a pilot
because all I had were torch songs for a girl I barely knew.”
― Ebony LaDelle, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“Who teaches Black boys how to love anyway? Especially the ones who love other boys?”
― Ebony LaDelle, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“She smiles, and its soft and loving, and the look I always imagines on the woman I would spend the rest of my life with.”
― Ebony LaDelle, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs