Daniele

“E bada che se non conserverai queste amicizie, sarà ben difficile che tu ne acquisti altre simili in avvenire, delle amicizie, voglio dire, fuori della classe a cui appartieni; e così vivrai in una classe sola, e l'uomo che pratica una sola classe sociale, è come lo studioso che non legge altro che un libro.”
― Edmondo de Amicis, Cuore

“Leakage is unconscious. We all measure the world against our own bodies.
That said, leakage is a problematic idea, at a time when historically erased identities are trying to represent themselves through their own truths. My attempt to see you will always risk blurring you with me.”
― Riva Lehrer, Golem Girl: A Memoir

“Waywardness is a practice of possibility at a time when all reads, except the ones created by smashing out, are foreclosed. It obeys no rules and abides no authorities. It is unrepentant. It traffics in occult visions of other worlds and dreams of a different kind of life. Waywardness is an ongoing exploration of what might be; it is an improvisation with the terms of social existence, when the terms have already been dictated, when there is little room to breathe, when you have been sentenced to a life of servitude, when the house of bondage looms in whatever direction you move. It is the untiring practice of trying to live when you were never meant to survive.”
― Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

“Nature is wayward and perverse: there is wild inside what we call abnormal.”
― Riva Lehrer, Golem Girl: A Memoir