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“For most humans, transformation does not seem achievable from the distant shores of another person’s life. From far away, transformation looks like a miracle, or the result of magical powers possessed by the transformed person. Transformation is not magic. It’s hard work. But it is also doable work. When we can see another person’s labor toward their transformation, we know it is not some secret sauce but instead a daily commitment to a new way of life.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So, we don’t. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color “criminals” and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“I learn how to listen to my body. I must listen or I will die. In the water, I must learn the difference between fear and danger.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“I think that women who know their own power are witches,” Biller told New Jack Witch, “and also women who are artists are witches. I was not raised with any religion, but I believe in magic as a real force in the world.”
― Kristen J. Sollee, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive