Iqra Ashraf

“The Fool card represented one who walked without fear, aware of the choices she made in the journey of life, life itself being defined as a state of courage and wisdom and not an uncontrollable participation in society, as many people experienced their lives.”
― Ana Castillo, So Far from God

“Bronze and copper to course through your veins
Hair of coal, black as raven
Liquid fossils flowing longer than the Nile
Rubbies and sapphires inside your chambers
And diamonds for pupils in almond set eyes
Because I love you”
― spoken silence

“Beauty is in the streets,” they say in Paris. We travelers know our favorites, Parisians know theirs. Jean Genet liked to stand with his friend Giacometti at the foot of rue Oberkampf, taking in its long uphill from the Marais to Belleville. Simone Weil loved walking the quays of Île Saint-Louis in her native river city. The scruffy streets of the ninth were François Truffaut’s muse and mother.

As cities evolve and erupt, streets change; Parisians come and go. But the beauty remains.”
― Susan Cahill, The Streets of Paris: A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History

“forget being
lady-like
& allow yourself
to show
the world
just how
unapolegeticaly
angry
this inequality
makes you”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One