8 Quotes by Raven Leilani

Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well.

I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men.

Of course it is not interesting that he has been allowed to live candidly. It is not interesting that he cannot conceive of anything else. He has equated his range of motion with mine. He hasn't considered the lies you tell to survive, the kindness of pretend, which I illustrate now, as I eat this bacterial hot dog. This is the first time I sort of understand him. He thinks we're alike. He has no idea how hard I'm trying.

I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be born to die.

The sort of high-yellow woman who believed her fair complexion was the result of an errant Native American gene, but who was, like so many of us, walking proof of America industry, the bolls and ships and casual sexual terrorism that put a little cream in the coffee and made her family loyal to the almighty paper bag.

During my interview with CVS, I try to be convincing in my assurance that pointing young adults in the direction of Plan B has always been part of my 5 year plan. But after the interview, I go to the parking lot to drink some cough syrup and notice one of the managers watching me from his car.

There were VHS tapes of devout animated cucumbers and my mother's drawings of Lucifer, which bothered me until I had the vocabulary to know I was aroused.

The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light.