Rashonda

“You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“Writing permits me to be more than I am. Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.”
― Alice Walker

“Believe in God, believe in yourself, believe in whatever it is you are trying to accomplish…believe in that order.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby

“We are simply spirits in a shell. The body is merely a covering, a casement for the soul.”
― Ilyasah Shabazz