12 Quotes by Danzy Senna

When there is a gap – between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself – you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.

We were lying on our backs in the foothills, watching the sky and making a list called “Never.” All the things we would never do. Let’s never get married. Let’s never get fat. Let’s never sleep with a married man. Let’s never stop being students, even after we graduate. Let’s never get dull-eyed and ironic. Let’s never get stuck in a rut – or trapped in a life we didn’t choose. Let’s never grow bitter.

In those years, I felt myself to be incomplete – a gray blur, a body in motion, forever galloping toward completion – half a girl, half-caste, half-mast, and half-baked, not quite ready for consumption.