Kyra Ann Dawkins

“And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper? Green like a cucumber, lettuce, or green like the sky is just before it breaks loose to storm? Well, night black is the same way. May as well be a rainbow.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“We used to think that hunger was our greatest enemy...[a]nd yet, though hunger can still be dreadful, it helped forge our family. We would have never become a *We* if We did not unite over a shared need....Our capacity to feel and endure hunger and lacking and pain reveals We are human.”
― Kyra Ann Dawkins, The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History

“The soulless ones are not our greatest enemies. They were as deceived as We were. Our ultimate enemy is greed. For greed hardens hearts and minds and renders other people as less than human, as merely flesh.”
― Kyra Ann Dawkins, The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History

“Darkness fueled by the fear of hunger and reverence of greed could choke the world. Or maybe more of us, the We, could exist. May We know the power of the choice to become many in one, fleshed and all.”
― Kyra Ann Dawkins, The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History