Sarah Peck

“all the women. in me. are tired.”
― Austin Channing Brown, Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession

“I love myself when I am laughing and again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“What if the work resisted restraint because it was not meant to be restrained? What if she had very nearly everything she needed for the book to take shape, except for the courage to let it find its own shape? She stopped wrestling with the work so she could dance with it instead. I watched the wheels turn right in front of me, and I saw in Austin a mind simultaneously at work and play. I saw a writer doing their job and a woman remembering who the hell she was and what she wanted.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession

“I am left wondering if what the world has wanted from us since we were young is to be dispossessed of ourselves—to need nothing, to want nothing, to be nothing, except malleable tools in an antiblack system of exploitation.”
― Austin Channing Brown, Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession