Dalila

“Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.”
― Philippa Gregory

“I believed, and still do, that our bodies are our selves, that my soul is the voltage conducted through neurons and nerves, and that my spirit is my flesh.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
― Audre Lorde

“America understands itself as God’s handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me