4 Quotes by Jacqui Germain

You have survived so muchthat no one remembers.And you still spread warmrain on all your overgrownlots. And you still get dressedin the morning. You stillopen wide for the sun.

some words carry ghosts no matter what

Our people know these two things best: water and salt.We cry when we run out of sweat, we sweat when we tired of cry.

The Atlantic has my jaw in its fist because my teeth and tongue have curled into knuckles. The Atlantic has Africa in its fist because they’ve been trading ghosts for centuries. The Atlantic has Haiti in its fist because the slaves had so much fight it filled up the moon; the moon moves everything.