Alexis

“Su is so used to the privacy of her feelings she is unsure about sharing them, even with her sister. Having someone bear witness to your pain is risky: it takes the experience out of your hands, makes things real in a way you cannot unmake. Alone, you're free to rearrange the pieces till they sit right in your head.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake

“All she wants is some credible vouchsafing of love and admiration from one non-horrible man who finds her interesting and attractive and good- who finds her good and attractive because she is interesting. Nothing more.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection

“The poem is a requiem to the death of black creativity. It is an obituary for the lives of singers, musicians, and poets who dare believe they share the authority to act and think. The beauty of the poem is its juxtapositions: laughter and suffering, song and pain, dancing and dying. Yet this is the black American dilemma- how to live in a nation committed to one's destruction? How to find joy in the midst of terror? How to do art when one has not been deemed human?”
― Daniel Black

“... Su has relied on haute couture as a soft armor against a hard world that isn't made for her, a world she is worried will call her bluff. Fashion helps to ground her in her own body. It makes her feel perceivable.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake