“When a man hits a target, they call him a marksman. When I hit a target, they call it a trick. Never did like that much.”
“I was taught that it was important to speak but to talk a talk that was in itself a silence.”
Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“Speaking becomes both a way to engage in active self-transformation and a rite of passage where one moves from being object to being subject. Only as subjects can we speak. As objects, we remain voiceless—our beings defined and interpreted by others.”
Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“Easily threatened men always acted like fools.”
“No love can surpass the love of a mother, no care can surpass a sister's care. Yet a society run by balls and bananas, makes a hooker out of our mothers and sisters.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Beauty is demonstrably a cheat code for a slightly easier life. People just a little more likely to do you a favor, love just a little easier to access, the world just a little more welcoming.”
Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“I had been eight years old then. I had turned eighteen in January my years of performing for an audience were over.”
Source: The Kingdom of Back
“I am a Black woman. True, I have been told time and time again that my best chance of success is to emulate the preferred traits of white maleness as much as possible. Still, mine is not the image of the great leaders in our history books, nor that of the heroes in our stories. For someone like me to expect any greatness without having exceptional talent and luck was, at best, foolish and, at worst, dangerous. This is not my birthright.”
Source: Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
“Wenn Frauen sich nicht unterstützen, unterstützt sie keiner.”
Source: Blaue Frau
“Mothering, for me, means willpower, fortitude, grit. It is the transcendent power to multiply oneself, succeeded by the supreme humility to serve that second self.”
Source: The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom