Rosa

“In conversations with my daughters I hear omitted words or phrases. Sometimes they get mad, they say Mama, I never said that, you’re saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

“Without intentional efforts to combat old ways and norms, ... institutions ... reproduce dominant social ideas, hierarchies, and systems of oppression.”
― Monique W. Morris, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

“Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.”
― Mario Batali

“For Black girls, to be "ghetto" represents a certain resilience to how poverty has shaped racial and gender oppression. To be "loud" it to demand to be heard. To have an "attitude" is to reject a doctrine of invisibility and maltreatment. To be flamboyant--or "fabulous"--is to revise the idea that socioeconomic isolation is equated with not having access to materially desirable things. To be a ghetto Black girl, then, is to reinvent what it means to be Black, poor, and female.”
― Monique W. Morris, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools