Melissa Perkins

“Cultures of domination rely on the cultivation of fear as a way to ensure obedience.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.”— Persian proverb.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“...consider the possibility that to love blackness is dangerous in a white supremacist culture- so threatening, so serious a breach in the fabric of the social order, that death is the punishment.”
― bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

“Unlike happiness, unhappiness cannot happen without the presence of an ego.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana