Amy Clevenger

“The people who are strong are the ones who appear weak”
― Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

“Race and racism are power constructs of the modern world. For roughly two hundred thousand years, before race and racism were constructed in the fifteenth century, humans saw color but did not group the colors into continental races, did not commonly attach negative and positive characteristics to those colors and rank the races to justify racial inequity, to reinforce racist power and policy.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“All forms of racism are overt if our antiracist eyes are open to seeing racist policy in racial inequity.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“The joy of having sons is that they worship their mothers. Until one day, suddenly, they don’t. I am not like you, he realizes. We are different. Then, that boy—once small and sweet—begins the long, hard process of separation, until at last he rips the seam. But the holes where mother and son were once knit together remain.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River