Ashley Campbell

“First, it is a commitment to particularism, to giving priority to the specificity of particulars, not to abstractions and generalities that divert our attention away from concrete realities. Idealizations tend to be partial and distorting, obscuring the heterogeneity and complexity of actual experiences and concrete practices, which is why they do not provide an adequate standpoint for the diagnosis of social problems and injustices.”
― José Medina, The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations

“I felt my voice had fallen through and through me, and I couldn't summon it back to tell him or myself anything at all.”
― Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

“The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.”
― William Apess, On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot

“But he was so young then that later he was only able to remember fragments of what happened next: the lull of the morning fields, the springy cotton flanks of the sheep, the suddenness of the tumble down the deep hole in which he would spend the night, alone, gazing up at the puzzled sheep, and hours later, Mother Vera's thoughtful, dawn-lit face hovering over the mouth of the hole.”
― Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife