Cherem

“If you can't raise consciousness at least raise hell”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Nothing is sweeter than love, all other riches
second: even honey I’ve spat from my mouth.”
― Diane J. Rayor, Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece

“The real power, as you and I well know, is collective. I can’t afford to be afraid of you, nor you of me. If it takes head-on collisions, let’s do it: this polite timidity is killing us.”
― Cherríe L. Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous