"If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation."

-- N.K. Jemisin

#Wipe Quotes #Littles Quotes #Annihilation Quotes

“The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories don't want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were told...”
“Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.”
“A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.”
“The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?”
“It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“Our way is not soft grass; it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.”
“So when it comes to being a role model to women, I think it's because of the way that I feel about myself, and the way that I treat myself. I am a woman, I treat myself with respect and I love myself, and I think that if I'm holding myself to a certain esteem and keeping it real with myself, then that's going to translate to people like me.”
“There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.”

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