Mwanamali

“Fuck love and just get fat.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“White men get a choice. They get to choose they job, they house. They get to choose to make black babies, then disappear into thin air, like they wasn't never there to begin with, like these black women they slept with or raped done laid on top of themselves and got pregnant. White men get to choose for black men too. Used to sell 'em; now they just send 'em to prison like my daddy, so that they can't be with they kids.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“I suffer
from unrequited self love.
I love myself, but I don’t
Love myself
back.”
― Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

“How can so many things become a bore by middle age — philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods — but heartbreak keeps its sting?”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less