Tesia Summers

“A spiritual posture that embraces the past while holding the present and future can be found in the word sankofa from the Akan tribe in Ghana. Sankofa means “it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot.”
― Cindy S Lee, Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation

“What you’re saying is that if someone pays you enough, it’s okay to abandon what you have claimed to understand as moral and right.”
― Percival Everett, James

“It’s hard to be knocked down when you’re on all fours.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.”
― Sofia Tolstoy, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy: A Chronicle of Marriage to Leo Tolstoy and Turbulent Turn-of-the-Century Russia