Entire life Quote by Zinzi Clemmons

“Loss is a straightforward equation: 2 - 1 = 1. A person is there, then she is not. But a loss is beyond numbers,…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“She comes to me in snatches - I remember pieces of her laugh, the look she gave when she was upset. Sometimes I sniff…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“Oftentimes I find myself, when we are fighting over the bills, or when he chews his food too loudly or laughs at the wrong…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“If I look long enough at a flower, I can see the color of her cheeks in the stigma.”

— Zinzi Clemmons

“But as I stood there with those mathematics in hand, the weight of the moment on me, I said nothing. And when I tried…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“I don't sleep for two night. Instead I am wide awake and tossing. Each day I feel less like the person I was the…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“Yes, there is that dark, terrifying loneliness that scares me, but I am acquainted with fear. If I stay inside it long enough, root…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“Early on I felt I had nothing to offer Dean except my body. He was a full person and I knew that I wasn't…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“His apartment is on the top floor of a three-story building in King. The landlady is an old Rusian woman who smokes at the…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“The pilot came on the loudspeaker to tell us we had been hit by lightning. Despite our fright, no damage had been done to…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“I’ve often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless.”

— Zinzi Clemmons