Samie Belle > Samie Belle's Quotes

“Why do we teach girls that their perspectives are inherently untrustworthy?”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“This is what I keep returning to: how people decide who is or is not an unreliable narrator. And after that decision has been made, what do we do with people who attempt to construct their own vision of justice?”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“After No sound falls from the moaning sky No scowl wrinkles the evening pool The stars lean down A stony brilliance While birds fly. The market leers its empty shelves Streets bare bosoms to scanty cars This bed yawns beneath the weight of our absent selves.”
― Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry

“Still I Rise You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard ’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.”
― Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry

“But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
― Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry

“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. —NELSON MANDELA”
― Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry

“Where Sleeping Girls Lie, I write to young girls who feel so much anger, and need desperately for someone or something to tell them their rage is important, and that the capacity to heal from deep wounds is not at all impossible.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Where Sleeping Girls Lie

“Books My preferred way to travel is not a plane but a book. How wonderful it is to be transported somewhere new without having to leave your bed.”
― Michael Faudet, Winter of Summers (Michael Faudet Book 4)

“Like his lonely and her lonely fit perfectly into the empty spaces at the other’s side, saying nothing, asking nothing, just keeping each other company.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“Theirs was a friendship built on the unspoken, shared understanding that you can love the home you’ve made with the whole of your heart and still know the land it’s built on will never claim you.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“To be a woman was to watch yourself not just through your own eyes, but through the eyes of others.”
― Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel

“That no matter how unjust the system is, she is expected to submit to it in order to prove that she deserves to be free of its control.”
― Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel

“The Republicans would have you believe that all progress is good progress”
― Linda H. Codega, Motheater

“To the terrible girls”
― Margaret Owen, Holy Terrors