"she was completely wholeand yet never fully complete"
- Maquita Donyel Irvin
"...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent..."
"Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days"
"...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...."
"...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces..."
"Black Moms create magic, so that makes me magical."
- Stephanie Lahart
"The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air..."
"The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders"
- Malebo Sephodi
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change."
- Audre Lorde
"Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many."
- Randi Pink