Ashley

“I, too, live in the time of slavery, by which I mean I am living in the future created by it.”
― Saidiya Hartman

“wishing my hair was longer and straighter, wishing my skin was lighter, wishing I was someone else, asking God to make me beautiful. These are things I beg my daughter not to inherit.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“We stayed, like prisoners, only we chose to be prisoners and we loved our prison; it was not a bad prison. And when things only got worse in our country, we pulled our shackles even tighter and said "We are not leaving America, no, we are not leaving.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“Our only chance at dismantling racial injustice is being more curious about its origins than we are worried about our comfort. It's not a comfortable conversation for any of us. It is risky and messy. It is haunting work to recall the sins of our past. But is this not the work we have been called to anyway? Is this not the work of the Holy Spirit to illuminate truth and inspire transformation? It's haunting. But it's also holy.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness