Sansriti

“I'm an open book,' I say, thinking of all the men who have found it illegible. I made mistakes with these men. I dove for their legs as they tried to leave my house. I chased them down the hall with a bottle of Listerine, saying, I can be a beach read, I can get rid of all these clauses, please, I'll just revise.

I'M LOL'ING”
― Raven Leilani

“The most beautiful part of your body
is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong

“To be so lonely
you told yourself you liked to be this way
& almost believed it was true.”
― Natalie Wee, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines

“To all our brothers and sisters in school—if your school is messed up, if the administration and the teachers don’t care and don’t teach—don’t let them force you to drop out. Throw them out. The schools belong to us, not to them. Take all that anger and put it to work for our people. Make revolution inside the schools. If the schools don’t function for us, they shouldn’t function at all!”
― Darrel Enck-Wanzer, The Young Lords: A Reader