Joanne

“White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both women and people of color and we are always seen and treated as such.”
― Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

“Think about this. Abolishing gold will cost you the rich. Marrying me could cost you the poor as well." "Zilan," he said, taking my other hand. "I don't care if it costs me the world.”
― Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist

“They had wounded me, but they would not have the satisfaction of knowing it. Their unkindness only had as much power as I gave it, and I would wrench back my tattered pride from beneath the soles of their feet because... it was all I had left.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

“I wish for you to not go anywhere without me. In this world and the next. I wish for you to choose me.” A pause, and softer: “That is, if you would wish it.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night