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“The thing that makes men manly is that they force everyone to be witness to their vengeance. I want no part in this.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“the system fails us again and again and creates the illusion that we are the ones who are failing”
― Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

“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

“No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot