Quotes from Bernadine evaristo

Dad's a socialist who wants a revolution to improve the lot of all of mankind literally

he makes he feel like she's back in south London, then she catches herself, it's not as cut and dried as it was before, he could be a relative, if there's one thing she's learned in the past forty-eight hours, anyone can be a relative

And the only culture she gets is the one she decimates with bleach.

We should celebrate that many more women are reconfiguring feminism and that grassroots activism is spreading like wildfire and millions of women are waking up to the possibility of taking ownership of our world as fully-entitled human beings how can we argue with that?

She gazes up at the sky through the window. 'Come to think of it, wouldn't it be brilliant if we could stop time when we felt like it, catch up on stuff and then slip back into it?

The rest of the house is silent. Is funny how you don't notice silence most of the time. But silence is a sound in itself, a-true. Silence is the humming absence of a tangible sound that you can ascribe to something. Actually, you only really experience silence when you dead, although that theory is hypothetical and not one I'd like to put to the test.

a muslim man carries out a mass shooting...and he's called a terrorist, a white man does exactly the same thing and he's called a madman both sets are mad, Yazz I know, Warris I know -p58, from Girl, Woman, Other

she even contemplated having her womb taken out to eliminate periods altogether, which would surely be her greatest possible career move, a tactical hysterectomy for ambitious women with menstruation problems

there was no such thing as objective truth and if you think something's good because it speaks to you it is

this is not about feeling something or about speaking words this is about being together.

why should he carry the burden of representation when it will only hold him back? white people are only required to represent themselves, not an entire race