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“You don't need to know people in order to grieve with them. You grieve with them in order to know them.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

“Plenty of women have met the “male feminist” who can quote bell hooks but will use those quotes to speak over you. Plenty of people of color have met the white antiracist who is all for Dr. King’s dream until people of color start asking white people to make actual sacrifices for racial justice. Ego can undermine even the best of intentions, but often, when things like this happen—when someone we trust as an ally ends up taking advantage of their position and then turning against the principles they once claimed to fight for when that abuse is discovered—we find that the intentions were never that great in the first place.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

“And yet we have, as a society, somehow convinced ourselves that we should be led by incompetent assholes.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

“All my life, longings lived inside me, rising up like nocturnes to wail and sing through the night. That my husband bent his heart to mine on our thin straw mat and listened was the kindness I most loved in him. What he heard was my life begging to be born.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings