Amber

“We fear beginnings; we fear endings. We fear changing; we fear “staying stuck.” We fear success; we fear failure. We fear living; we fear dying.”
― Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

“I know I am capable of loving to the full capacity, of not being frightened of loving too much, of giving myself up and over”
― Jackie Kay, Trumpet

“Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence.”
― Jackie Kay, Trumpet

“Cultural appropriation operates as part of a structural power dynamic where the ‘appropriating’ actors belong to an advantaged group. This group systematically extracts the cultural resources of a subordinate group, erasing the subordinate group’s involvement in the process. The structurally advantaged group becomes the primary (financial) benefactor of an innovation that was not theirs.”
― Emma Dabiri, Don't Touch My Hair