Kim Mack

“It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners except to a limited extent with war prisoners and colored slaves. Even the official ally of the moment is always regarded with a darkest suspicion. War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners, he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what has been told about them is lies.”
― Orwell George, 1984

“... the smaller the area of choice, the smaller the temptation to take thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“As I looked at her, my heart swelled with what was nothing less than love. She was imperfect, striving, shallow, and infuriating. And yet. She had suffered in ways she had hidden from me for my entire life so far. She did, in her own way, love me more than anything. That much I knew. That much I sensed in every fiber of my soul.
That much would always be true.
And it would have to be enough.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

“Two young women stood back-to-back performing a slam poem called "Hir," rotating to face the mic as they gave voice to a girl named Melissa and the boy inside her named James.

'Sometimes she wishes she could rip the skin off her back,
Every moment of every day she feels trapped in the flesh of a stranger.”
― Dashka Slater, The 57 Bus