Quotes from Phyllis Alesia Perry

Sanity," she says to the ground, "is a mutual agreement between folks trying to control their world.

I come from a long line of forever people. We are forever. Here at the bottom of heaven we live in the circle. We back and gone and back again.

I am Ayo. Joy. I choose to remember.

I am aware that the woman sits on the floor with me, and my head is in her lap, but I can't see her anymore. I only feel her bones beneath my bones, holding me up. I strain to see, even though I feel the sun on my skin, coming through the window.