Patrick Teed

“There may be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible”
― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“You come to this, here's the marrow of it, not moving, not standing, it's too much to hold up, what I really want to say is, I don't want no fucking country, here or there and all the way back, I don't like it, none of it, easy as that. I'm giving up on land to light on, and why not, I can't perfect my own shadow, my violent sorrow, my individual wrists”
― Dionne Brand, Land to Light On

“It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

“I hate the past and for that matter the present”
― Dionne Brand, At the Full and Change of the Moon