Vanessa Obi

“[S]ince I became a woman, boys were gonna follow me around more often, 'cause they could follow the trail of stars that fall from between my legs after dark.”
― Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

“Sexual assault must simultaneously be terrible and be something you're able to accept--which is an impossibly hard thing to negotiate.”
― Stacey May Fowles, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“The less we understand a group in society--the less we bother to learn--the more misconceptions and worries we have.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“The electrified fence of segregation and the centuries of shocks it delivered so effectively circumscribed the lives of American blacks that even after the current was turned off, the idea of climbing over the fence inspired dread.”
― Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures