EyeWrite

“We knew that there could be no real sisterhood between white women and women of color if white women were not able to divest of white supremacy, if feminist movement were not fundamentally anti-racist.”
― Bell Hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“It is said that his time was easier than ours, but I doubt it—no time can be easy if one is living through it.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays

“When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.”
― James Baldwin

“I do a lot of rewriting. It’s very painful.”
― James Baldwin