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“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.”
― Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

“How do we memorialize an event that is still ongoing?”
― Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

“The anatomical specifications of rupture, of altered human tissue, take on the objective description of laboratory prose – eyes beaten out, arms, backs, skulls branded, a left jaw, a right ankle, punctured; teeth missing, as the calculated work of iron, whips, chains, knives, the canine patrol, the bullet. These undecipherable markings on the captive body render a kind of hieroglyphics of the flesh whose severe disjunctures come to be hidden to the cultural seeing by color.”
― Hortense Spillers, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture

“Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks