55 Quotes by Esi Edugyan

Ain’t no man can outrun his fate.

There are several kinds of happiness, Washington. Sometimes it is not for us to choose, or even understand, the one granted us.

The dead have no compassion for the living.

What is luck but something made to run out.

We must all take on faith the stories of our birth, for though we are in them, we are not yet present.

It’s early yet. It’s always early, while you still alive.

Ain’t no glory made from being dependable.

I was nothing to you. You never saw me as equal. You were more concerned that slavery should be a moral stain upon white men than by the actual damage it wreaks on black men.” Even as I spoke these words, I could hear what a false picture they painted, and also how they were painfully true.

I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something. Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.