Tiphanie Yanique Quotes & Sayings

Family will always kill you
some bit by bit, others all at once. It is the love that does it. — Tiphanie Yanique

But they felt ancient and natural, like they were, just tonight and just here, alive in a time before Americanness. A time before any kind of ness. — Tiphanie Yanique

Despite her light skin, despite the obviousness that more of her ancestors had owned slaves than had been them, how could she lose? We're open like that. We like to know that people love us; we don't care how they look. — Tiphanie Yanique

Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness. — Tiphanie Yanique

The three children had hear the story of the Duene lovers, but they interpreted it differently. And it does not matter, ultimately, what they heard or even what they knew. It is how they interpret the story that will make all the difference. — Tiphanie Yanique

The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn. — Tiphanie Yanique