4 Quotes by D.E. Eliot

These spinning rooms leave us with so much to ponder, so much to remember, nothing left to regret. It doesn’t matter how we began, only how we forget.

I don’t want to be hurt again, so I’ll prepare myself for the worst and hope for the best. The thing is, nothing lasts because nothing is required to last. There’s nothing to gain from being hopelessly in love.

I laughed slightly and it sounded pure. I continued to get all of this mess off my chest while I could, “I find it telling, don’t you, that whenever you ask a man what type of woman he seeks or wants, his description always resembles the traits of a slave.

Life in the black community has a different set of rules than the perfect America our schoolbooks go on about. Black people don’t live in that schoolbook America. Where we live, we are underpaid and over-policed, but at the same time, they expect us to work harder and longer just to get half of what they already got. It’s like they wanted us to eat dog shit, yet, they never allowed us to own dogs.