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“Women of color have to not only battle white patriarchy and that of their own culture, but must also contend with colonialism, neocolonialism, imperialism, and other forms of racism. Given white women have never had to deal with racial and colonial oppression, it is not surprising — though it is certainly regrettable — that so many of them still regard feminism as a movement purely concerned with gender, leaving racialized women to keep trying to draw their attention to the ways in which various oppressions affect our lives. Until white women reckon with this, mainstream Western feminism cannot be anything more than another iteration of white supremacy.”
― Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

“Irish Alzheimer’s—he only remembers the slights, the grudges.”
― David Ellis, Look Closer

“brown leaves crunch under my boots—a picture-perfect snapshot of autumn in New York, the season of rebirth in death.”
― Olivia Worley, So Happy Together

“As a wise woman once told me: The best lies are the ones closest to the truth.”
― David Ellis, Look Closer