Atiya Irvin-mitchell

“But I have always been enough. And I no longer wish to destroy what I am to create a version of myself this world will accept. I will embrace it all. Every ugly, monstrous part of me. I accept you.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medea

“Everyone’s got a pretty little flaw hidden behind the party smile and the better shoes.”
― Gregory Maguire, Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

“If we acknowledge that white women stood to personally and directly benefit from the commodification and enslavement of African Americans we can better understand their participation in postwar white-supremacist movements and atrocities such as lynching—as well as their membership in organizations like the Ku Klux Klan. Southern white women's roles in upholding and sustaining slavery form part of the much larger history of white supremacy and oppression. And through it all, they were not passive bystanders. They were co-conspirators.”
― Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

“Anyone who’s worked at a nonprofit knows you do ten jobs and there’s still more to do.”
― Tina Knowles, Matriarch: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir