Nikyatu

“Don’t let anybody, anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.”
― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

“The Human Contradiction held them. Intelligence at the service of hierarchical behavior. They were not free.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Adulthood Rites

“As one put it to me once, "I just wish white women would get as concerned about the health and well-being of black babies being born, as they are about me being able not to have babies.”
― Shirley Chisholm, The Good Fight

“It is this rattling I believe that affects the second point: our uneasiness with our own feelings of foreignness, our own rapidly fraying sense of belonging. To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, culture, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely? In other words, how do we decide where we belong? What convinces us that we do? Or put another way, what is the matter with foreignness?”
― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations