Angela

“The idea of “post-racism,” just like that of “reverse racism,” is really just a coded way of denying the existence of actual racism. And denying the existence of actual racism is really just another form of (you guessed it) racism.”
― Justin Simien, Dear White People: A Guide to Inter-Racial Harmony in "Post-Racial" America

“Just like my mom, Grandma had died the day she gave birth. It was like a curse in our family. “Because”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“I didn’t come all this way not to let some lunatic old man tie me to a chair and feed me mind-melting poisons. “I”
― Zack Parsons, Liminal States

“But I would be happier if my daughter and her friends were crashing through the glass ceiling instead of the sexual ceiling,' Jong continued. 'Being able to have an orgasm with a man you don't love or having Sex and the City on television, that is not liberation. If you start to think about women as if we're all Carrie on Sex and the City, well, the problem is: You're not going to elect Carrie to the Senate or to run your company. Let's see the Senate fifty percent female; let's see women in decision-making positions--that's power. Sexual freedom can be a smokescreen for how far we haven't come.”
― Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture