Dazzled by Darkness Quotes

“Who's your North Star?" (that one person you can always count on)
"I'm my own North Star!”
― Erica Miles, Dazzled by Darkness: A Story of Art & Desire

“I met someone," she said after a silence. "Are you telling me you have a boyfriend?" "I think so." "I know this is not your first." "He's the first one who's Black." "How do you feel about that?" "You won't send me to the hospital?" "Why? Because you met a black man? That doesn't mean you're symptomatic.”
― Erica Miles, Dazzled by Darkness: A Story of Art & Desire

“The film started playing. It was in black and white, and silent. Nostalgic night scenes. A man gazing up at the moon. A woman being held by the man. And a sudden close-up of the woman's face--as a razor blade slices through her left eyeball.”
― Erica Miles, Dazzled by Darkness: A Story of Art & Desire

“I've never done it with a woman in a painting before." "It's always hardest the first time," she said, guiding his hand. "I have to tell you I'm involved with someone," he said. "That's nothing to me. I'm a prostitute," she replied.”
― Erica Miles, Dazzled by Darkness: A Story of Art & Desire

“Though a devout atheist, she had a romantic side to her that did not exclude beautiful religious architecture.”
― Erica Miles, Dazzled by Darkness: A Story of Art & Desire

“So he was Spanish. But he still looked Black to her. Like many white people, Sara made no distinction between a Black American and an Afro-Latino.”
― Erica Miles, Dazzled by Darkness: A Story of Art & Desire

“It was the decade when John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated, and psychopaths were rampant in the nation.”
― Erica Miles, Dazzled by Darkness: A Story of Art & Desire

“While other young Americans were caught up in Civil Rights Marches, the Vietnam War, protest songs, and psychedelic drugs, Sara Got was hearing voices in her head and trying to relate to them.”
― Erica Miles, Dazzled by Darkness: A Story of Art & Desire

“It's not just north against south--it's neighbor against neighbor--it's the people in your own house--it's what's inside your head against yourself. Some of us are just tryin' to get on with our lives, but you can't ignore the politics. You may never mention it--not even to your wife--but you swallow it with your drinking water, and sometimes you have to spit."
Pablo's deep-set eyes were goblets receiving Gavilàn's outporing like wine
"Come with me," he said.”
― Erica Miles, Dazzled by Darkness: A Story of Art & Desire

“We are either architects OF the future or artifacts IN the future.
--unknown reference”
― Erica Miles, Dazzled by Darkness