Bee Reads

“maybe trigger warnings allow people to avoid learning how to deal with triggers and getting help.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“appreciate good things but because life had proved you shouldn’t express too much excitement, in case the goodness got taken away.”
― Sharma Taylor, What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones

“but these leaders traffic in respectability politics—the idea that if black (or other marginalized) people simply behave in “culturally approved” ways, if we mimic the dominant culture, it will be more difficult to suffer the effects of racism.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist