Sarah Peck

“What I am still endeavoring to name in this book is something subtler, something I experienced before being fired from that job: the emotional and physical posture Black women are expected to adopt as we move through the world. In its most simple terms, I call this posture “an emptying.” It wants us, Black women, to be emptied of ourselves.”
― Austin Channing Brown, 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

“I learned at a young age that being “full of myself” was a bad thing. But I have decided that I want to be full of myself: my ideas, my opinions, my curiosities, my needs, my emotions, my self.”
― Austin Channing Brown, Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession

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