Monika Holmes

“You could be Jesus in drag, but if you're brown, they're sure you're selling.”
― bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“Queerness isn't about individual answers as much as collective questions.”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

“The word “cannibal,” the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and from whom the word “Caribbean” originated. By virtue of being Caribbean, all “West Indian” people are already, in a purely linguistic sense, born savage.”
― Safiya Sinclair, Cannibal

“Each of us will tell herself, the other one's who pulled the trigger.”
― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt