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“The things you name grow in power.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“...those who are locked up know better than their jailers the taste of free air.”
― Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“For many people of color, learning to break the silence is a survival issue. To remain silent would be to disconnect from her own experience, to swallow and internalize her own oppression.The cost of silence is too high.”
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?