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“Girls like me seemed to be the object of the conversations and not full participants, because we were a problem to be solved, not people in our own right.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“Sometimes being a good ally is about opening the door for someone instead of insisting that your voice is the only one that matters.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“From what I understood, love was an extreme idea. A word that seemed to force something undefinable into the prison of letters. But the word was used so easily, so often. People spoke of love so casually, just to mean the slightest pleasure or thanks.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

“Lastly, and I know it sounds like an excuse, but neither you nor I nor anyone can ever really know whether a story is happy or tragic.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond