Sarah Walker

“When you’re not a white, cis-gendered, able-bodied actor, of course, you never quite walk into the room as a blank state… how easy it is to forget the privilege to having a body that can walk into a rehearsal room neutral, crisp as new page”
― Sarah Walker, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying

“Children are said to truly understand death when they can comprehend four main concepts: irreversibility (that death is permanent), finality (that functioning ends), causality (that things cause us to die) and inevitability (that death is universal for all living things.) the last is the hardest….i wanted to run, but every direction was a step closer to the end. I was barrelling towards nothing. The greatest fear of all, the greatest betrayal: that our bodies, which know how to give birth and clean themselves and shit and fuck, also know how to die. To what is beautiful and controllable about us will fade. We can only stand by, in awe.
By revolted by your body. Be fascinated by your body. Not everyone is beautiful, but everyone is disgusting. In our complexity, we are whole.”
― Sarah Walker, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying