“a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness”

“Being in a non-monogamous relationship does more”

“What do you mean, I’m not like other Black people?”

“death still lurked out there, just waiting for me.”

“All I tasted was salt.”

“After we’d fucked for a year, toyed with romance, talked us to death”

“Everything I had ever been was a mouth”

“I realized that I was constantly bashing my body”

“I was heavily pregnant and he socked me in the arm”

“what it would really be like to literally be the only Black person”

“there are always men on that street who will consider you theirs in one way or another”

“This space–one not for me, but you, dear black reader”

“I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of not living.”

“thousands of miles to go to reach that elusive place called True Equality”

“She was up there on stage showing us what societies standards really meant: jack fucking shit.”

“Vertigo. It runs in my veins.”

“The nurses wheel his spectral body on a sweeping ghost gurney”

“Our villains don’t get funerals. We have unmarked their tombstones.”

“My brother requested postcards. Cheery pictures of faraway places to take his mind off of his pepto-pink cell walls”

“I looked down and saw it: my first prosthetic arm”