Jacob

“I struggle with this, the public grief by white people over Black Death. I have been, and am still, a victim of what my guilt can drive me to. Depending on the day, on the cause, on who I love that might be affected. There is, however, a manner in which this guilt is performed that sets me to wondering what the value of living blackness is when it rests against white outrage centered on the ending of black life. It is both essential for us to turn toward our people and ask them to do better, while also realizing that there is a very real currency that comes with being the loudest person to do it in public.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays

“Moving forward requires continued vigilance. It requires us to constantly attend to who we are, how we got that way, and all the selves we have the capacity to be.”
― Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

“Hubiera sido mejor echarle la culpa a la poesía, pero habría sido mentira, porque ahí están esos poemas que acaba de leer, poemas que demuestran que la poesía sí sirve para algo, que las palabras duelen, vibran, curan, consuelan, repercuten, permanecen.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

“The truth is, if we don’t write our own stories, there is someone else waiting to do it for us. And those people, waiting with their pens, often don’t look like we do and don’t have our best interests in mind.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us