Jasmine

“Without a doubt, it was a book for when the birds had flown south, the wood was stacked by the fireplace, and the fields were white with snow; that is, for when one had no desire to venture out and one’s friends had no desire to venture in.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“The fear of alienating other white women by refusing to challenge them or deny them support as a consequence for their racism is fundamentally damaging to any concept of feminism as a place that can create safety for all.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“i spent my life arguing how i mattered until it didn’t matter. who knew my haven would be my coffin? dead is the safest i’ve ever been. i’ve never been so alive.”
― Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

“We were free. We were unlimited. We didn’t yet know or understand race and class and all the intersections between them, so we were not yet black, at least not on the inside. Our psyches were still free from the troubles of the world.”
― Echo Brown, Black Girl Unlimited