Tangled in Text

“Time has taken on a life of it’s own. It started to reign over us like a pseudo-god to be bowed down to. Time is what makes us tick. Our desire to control time, to gain perfect precision, has changed us in more ways than we recognize. Our lives are being formed every day into a more mechanized, robotic, and calculated existence. We are becoming our clocks. We don’t eat or sleep when we are hungry or tired anymore–we eat when it’s time to eat. Sleep when it’s time to sleep. So, are we masters of time? Or slaves?”
― Jefferson Bethke, To Hell with the Hustle

“A white woman may well be punished for an emotional outburst when interacting with men, but if she is engaged in a terse interaction with a woman of color and she becomes emotional, by which I mean either angry or distraught, with or without actual tears, the deeply embedded notions of gender and femininity are triggered and it is the white woman who is likely to be vindicated.”
― Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

“Women of color are rarely given the benefit of the doubt and even more rarely considered worthy of sympathy and support. If we are angry it is because we are bullies, if we are crying it is because we are indulging in the cult of victimhood, if we are poised it is because we lack emotion, if we are emotional it is because we are less rational human and more primitive animal.”
― Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

“She’d memorized the verse about peace that passes all understanding, but all she felt was the weight of depression.”
― Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging