Grey > Grey's Quotes

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Drowning people
Sometimes die
Fighting their rescuers.”
― Octavia Butler

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“The hodgepodge of spiritual practices stemming from and associated with these spaces—yoga, breath work, tarot, astrology—also tend to be white dominant. As trans folks have turned to these practices as a means of self-care and healing, they have also tended to entrench and intensify the operations of what anthropologist Arun Saldana calls "white viscosity," which refers to how an aggregate of cultural practices work in concert in order to "make white bodies stick together and exclude others,”
― Hil Malatino, Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad