Pchu

“Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

“They’re afraid because we exist, she says. There’s nothing we did to provoke their fear, other than exist. There’s nothing we can do to earn their approval, except stop existing – so we can either die like they want, or laugh at their cowardice and go on with our lives.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“I said quietly without knowing I was going to say it, "But, Mother, you have made many mistakes too,”
― Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years

“At times I doubted, too; all men were beasts or fools; the man could make love at the beginning but the woman was always let down and was heartbroken. I had seen enough of it and I wasn't going to be a fool. I wouldn't have had my mother and my sisters gossiping about me, as she and myself used to gossip about the others, for anything in the world.”
― Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years