Queen Latifah (1970) American musician and actress
Source: Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom
“We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?”
A Natural History of Love (1994)
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