Vanessa Obi

“No matter what happens to our bodies in our lifetimes..., they remain ours.”
― Maggie Nelson

“let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.”
― Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

“They were so desperate to project the image of the respectable, righteous, picture-perfect Black Family to the world that they were willing to let the women and girls in those pictures suffer.”
― Sharisse Tracey, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“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