Elaine H

“Then I wondered which was more confidence killing: believing that you should not have felt inadequate when in fact you were, or discovering that, all along, you were actually smart enough to see things clearly, that you were correct in your fear.”
― Percival Everett, Erasure

“There are as many hammers as there are saws. A misplaced thumb knows no difference”
― Pervival Everett

“if a new beginning is really new. it will be like a crisis. Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid. if you are not afraid of it, then it’s not real change.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“All these words from the seller, but not one word from the sold. The Kings and Captains whose words moved ships. But not one word from the cargo. The thoughts of the “black ivory,” the “coin of Africa,” had no market value. Africa’s ambassadors to the New World have come and worked and died, and left their spoor, but no recorded thought.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"