Writing Workshop Quotes

“I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in teachers because I couldn't yet differentiate my love of learning from the hatred of a white supremacist educational system.”
― Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

“I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in tears, because I couldn't yet differentiate my love of learning from the hatred of a white supremacist educational system.”
― Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

“Membership necessitates mutual participation. How can we possibly achieve membership when our presence-the feat of occupying space in brown skin-is deemed illegitimate? We're non-people, exploited for our optics, meant to be seen and not heard. The infrastructure cannot, will not contain us.”
― Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

“we won't love you if you're perfect”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Troubadours. Poets of the twelfth century from the Occitan region of France. One of them, Arnaut Daniel, invented the sixtine, or sestina.”
― Mark Strand, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms