Alex Burger

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
–Isak Dinesen

“Izintaba azihlangani kuhlangana abantu – Mountains don’t meet but people do.”
–A Zulu saying

“You don’t have to catch every ball that someone throws at you.”
–A friend’s advice over lunch

“Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.”
—Bill T. Jones

“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths.”
–N.K. Jemisin

“Whose little boy are you?”
–James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
–Toni Morrison

“No time to marry, no time to settle down; I’m a young woman, and I ain’t done runnin’ around.”
–Bessie Smith