Ebony Ragin

“Prayer is the way we communicate with God. Affirmation is the way we reprogram the mind.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Get Over It!: Thought Therapy for Healing the Hard Stuff

“If you say fuck the patriarchy but you don’t ride for other women, then it might be more true that the patriarchy has fucked you, seducing you with the belief that men care more about your well-being than women do. It isn’t true.”
― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

“She blinked away the tears in her eyes that today were almost the color of periwinkle flowers. She looked like my grandmother, but in that moment, different to me somehow. Like the release of all that she had been holding inside, the sharing of it with me had given her back some of the girlish qualities of her youth. She looked beautiful, in the light from the window, like a goddess bathing in her own resplendence. Who knew that those aged hands, showing blue veins and resting on the rocking chair had once held the weight of the world? For a while, we just sat there—quietly, holding the space between us. Sometimes, there is just nothing more to be said.”
― Jayne Allen, Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

“Before we fully learn to love ourselves, all people of color in the United States learn that we are supporting characters and spectators in the collective story of white people’s lives.”
― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower