Jasmine

“Was it possible? She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Or had she brought me back in such a hurry so that I would avoid punishment? Or - I wonder today - did she want at different moments both things?”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”
― Italian Proverb

“No other group in America has used black people as metaphors as extensively as white women involved in the women’s movement.”
― bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings