Andy > Andy's Quotes

“A luxury of girlhood is being able to play on other people's anxieties without consequence. If you make a girl cry, you must be sorry. If a girl offers you an imaginary phone, you answer it. If a girl reaches for your hand, you take it. In womanhood, all those exchanges become contingent on her ability to pay a price. Sometimes this toll is exacted with no regard for the willingness of the woman.”
― Erin E. Adams, Jackal

“Danger for Black girls was different. It didn’t obey the boundaries of stories. For them, it was always real.”
― Erin E. Adams, Jackal

“The point, however, is about what white women do with their proximity to patriarchal power, and how we're conditioned to respond to misbehaving white men. Conscious of it or not, we reflexively protect their power, and seek to please them because our very own protagonism relies on it.”
― Reah Bravo, Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men