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“She asked why it happens? Keeps happening? What exact regime teaches males to take what isn’t given? What riles them?”
― Inua Ellams, The Half-God of Rainfall: A Powerful Epic Poem of Yoruba Deities and Greek Mythology Across the Ages

“You must work for a living,’ proclaim the nobility (from the chaise longue).”
― Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

“So if this is you, too; if somewhere along the way you lost the part of yourself that felt you could do anything, be anything; if there is a part of you that doesn’t feel strong or doesn’t know how to begin, that doesn’t feel you look the way you ‘should’ or feels ashamed in your own body, I am here to tell you whatever you have believed in the past does not have to determine your story.”
― Poorna Bell, Stronger: Changing Everything I Knew About Women’s Strength

“Walls look like order; but more often than not a wall stands at the precise fulcrum of an imbalance in society. Most walls are only necessary as a means of defending the resources of those that have them from those that lack them. In this way, though they present themselves as mechanisms of security, they are in fact tools of oppression.”
― Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us