Alicia

“Maybe we were all pretending to be fine because the world gave us no other option.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“Two faults. My race and my gender. But they are not faults. They are strength. And I am more than this man can comprehend.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“We face the crowd near the fence and raise our fists. Like I’ve seen in old pictures of the Olympics in 1968, and the NoDAPL protests that have been going on for years, and women in India fighting for justice for rape victims, and the teens—just like me—at the March for Our Lives. It’s a simple gesture, and a beautiful one. It calls out through dusty pages of history and echoes from those whose shoulders I stand on—the ones who were hosed down but never retreated, who were beaten but persisted, and the ones whose voices were locked behind walls but whose spirits were never broken. The people united will never be defeated.”
― Samira Ahmed, Internment

“If history had no ghosts, I wouldn’t be terrified of what might come next.”
― Samira Ahmed, Internment