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“There’s nothing you can learn from another person that you couldn’t understand more clearly from within yourself. Your truest connection with the god of your own understanding happens inside yourself, not with someone else.”
― Jessamyn Stanley, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance

“The goal of white supremacy is to kill your sense of imagination, too. White supremacy cannot make sense of Black bodies, fat bodies, disabled bodies, dark-skinned bodies, trans bodies, gender non-conforming bodies—indeed any body that does not conform—without placing them within a hierarchy of value. White supremacy is the opposite of empathy.”
― Carefree Black Girls Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

“It's very boring to call people crazy because they don't do what you tell them to”
― Danielle Pender, Watching Women & Girls

“To love someone is to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body