Krystal

“And, If I know anything at all/Its that a wall is just a wall/And nothing more at all/It can be broken down.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“(Frances Ellen Watkins Harper) "In closing, Harper challenged the white women in the audience to stand by their black sisters, to look beyond their own white privilege. “You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs,” she reminded them. “Talk of giving women the ballot-box? … While there exists this brutal element in society which tramples upon the feeble and treads down the weak, I tell you that if there is any class of people who need to be lifted out of their airy nothings and selfishness, it is the white women of America.”
― Kate Clifford Larson, Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero

“I am a boy and a girl and a witch all wrapped into one very strange, flimsy, indecisive body. Do you think my body couldn't decide what it wanted to be?”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

“The intentional act of loving other brown queers is about healing, in a world that says we are not worthy, that things like pleasure and care and security and unconditional love are not for us.”
― Mia McKenzie, Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender