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“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn’t. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn’t let her. She didn’t believe it herself so she stepped across into a whole other country.”
― Dionne Brand, What We All Long For

“Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.”
― Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return

“The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!