Safia

“Being too much of one thing and not enough of another had been a recurring theme in my life. I was, like many young women, expected to be small so that boys could expand and white girls could shine.

When I would not shrink, people made sure that I knew I had erred.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“Symbolic violence only makes sense if we accept its priors: all preferences in imperial, industrialized societies are shaped by the economic system.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
― Hannah Arendt

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind