“Loss is a straightforward equation: 2 - 1 = 1. A person is there, then she is not. But a loss is… — Zinzi Clemmons Death Copy Share Image
“She comes to me in snatches - I remember pieces of her laugh, the look she gave when she was upset. Sometimes… — Zinzi Clemmons Little things Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes I find myself, when we are fighting over the bills, or when he chews his food too loudly or laughs at… — Zinzi Clemmons Parenting Copy Share Image
“If I look long enough at a flower, I can see the color of her cheeks in the stigma.” — Zinzi Clemmons Flower Copy Share Image
“But as I stood there with those mathematics in hand, the weight of the moment on me, I said nothing. And when… — Zinzi Clemmons Entire life Copy Share Image
“I don't sleep for two night. Instead I am wide awake and tossing. Each day I feel less like the person I… — Zinzi Clemmons Wide awake Copy Share Image
“I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and… — Zinzi Clemmons Death Copy Share Image
“Yes, there is that dark, terrifying loneliness that scares me, but I am acquainted with fear. If I stay inside it long… — Zinzi Clemmons Fear Copy Share Image
“Early on I felt I had nothing to offer Dean except my body. He was a full person and I knew that… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
“This was the paradox: How would I ever heal from losing the person who healed me? The question was so enormous that… — Zinzi Clemmons Entire life Copy Share Image
“His apartment is on the top floor of a three-story building in King. The landlady is an old Rusian woman who smokes… — Zinzi Clemmons Every night Copy Share Image
“The pilot came on the loudspeaker to tell us we had been hit by lightning. Despite our fright, no damage had been… — Zinzi Clemmons Fear Copy Share Image
“I’ve often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless.” — Zinzi Clemmons African american Copy Share Image
“Why (and to whom) is it appealing to think you are in another city besides the one, in Africa, that you are… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
“Her disease only reinforced how the world saw us: not black or white, not American or African, not poor or rich. We… — Zinzi Clemmons Black or white Copy Share Image
“Death and pleasure we experience asymptotically. We spend much time working upward on the slope, and most people only sometimes approach the… — Zinzi Clemmons Death Copy Share Image
“We never raised the morality of the action, because our politics took care of that.” — Zinzi Clemmons Politics Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, my mother would try to convince me of a woman's need for a secret stash. "It can… — Zinzi Clemmons Children Copy Share Image
“When my lover and I fuck, we fuck with the fear of the world in us. We are fucking on the edge… — Zinzi Clemmons Death Copy Share Image
“In this regard I find myself dubious about the politics of women’s peace groups, for example, which celebrate maternality as the basis… — Zinzi Clemmons Mother Copy Share Image
“I've amazed myself with how well I've learned to live around her absence. This void is my constant companion, no matter what… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
“It might be said that in the sublime feeling, thinking becomes impatient, despairing, disinterested in attaining the ends of freedom by means… — Zinzi Clemmons Freedom Copy Share Image
“There is a casualness bred from familiarity that makes me at ease around him, that drew me to him in the first… — Zinzi Clemmons First place Copy Share Image
“Love and marriage are completely unrelated enterprises. Marriage bears as little resemblance to love as competing in the Olympics does to your… — Zinzi Clemmons Business Copy Share Image
“I've often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless. You may be… — Zinzi Clemmons Feeling Fine Copy Share Image
