Phobean

“It's going to be okay. I'll make friends, and if I don't, I'll borrow books from the library.”
― Kelly Yang, Front Desk

“Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don't often make and keep friends. This is a real tragedy, I think, because in a way, without a tight male friend, you never really are able to see yourself.”
― Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar

“Perhaps this is simply the way it is with writers. It's when they don't see you that you matter. Because then you can belong to them in a way that permits them complete possession. You are determined by them. You are controlled. You are, generally speaking, exaggerated.”
― Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar

“Meanwhile, life in a globalized world increasingly calls on us to communicate across difference in a rapidly evolving conversation about history, coexistence, exploitation, redress, and the legacies of systemic racism and White supremacy.”
― Liz Lerman, Critique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process® in Theory and Action