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“Whenever you conceptualize social justice struggles, you will always defeat your own purposes if you cannot imagine the people around whom you are struggling as equal partners.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

“All the poems I have ever written make a small book shaped like another me called by yesterday’s names the shedding of a past in patched conceits moulted like snake skin— a book of leavings.”
― Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

“The philosopher’s soul dwells in his head, the poet’s soul is in the heart; the singer’s soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran: All poems and short stories

“when I look at the hermit crab, all I see is how it’s able to leave its hard shell when it wants. But I can never leave my body, my shell. And I never thought I’d be jealous of something as simple as a hermit crab.”
― Jasminne Mendez, Aniana del Mar Jumps In