"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

#Race Quotes #Fire Quotes #Black Quotes

“You can only go to places that you will let yourself go.”
“I had this health teacher who keptÂ me after class one time, saying, â€˜Youâ€™re missing a lot of class.â€™ I was like, â€˜Yeah, but Iâ€™m doing this play.â€™ He said, â€˜Community theatre is not going to take you anywhere. Maybe you should stay in schoolâ€™”
“Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as a false." -Eric Northman, Sookie Stackhouse”
“Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.”
“Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.”
“I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we'll all become somebody's Mom or Dad, but right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening and I'm here.”
“First rule of bodyguard detail: know where your 'body' is at all times.”

Source : Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.145, Penguin
“I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.”

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