Tsipi Erann

“Black women's leadership memoirs have been a critical site for the articulation of their intellectual and political goals. Less concerned with the interiority of their subjects, this genre afforded Black women, particularly those who emerged during the 1890s, the opportunity to theorize about race and gender politics in ways that their lack of access to producing more formal academic texts did not. (68)”
― Brittney Cooper, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

“I was not like her and I was not like him. I was like me. But what was that? It was like being given a tiny corner of a map and being told: That is where you are going. No page number, no reference to an major city or country, no name of street or road. This is where you are going.

And I did not know that place would be here. And I did not know so many things would be missing from me. Old things, new things, things I never had, thing I and and watched disappear.”
― Rosalyn Chissick, Catching Shellfish Between the Tides

“Even if the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing. Presumably this was how the industry made money. Literature, in the way it appeared at these public readings, had no potential as a form of resistance to anything.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People