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“The goal of white supremacy is to kill your sense of imagination, too. White supremacy cannot make sense of Black bodies, fat bodies, disabled bodies, dark-skinned bodies, trans bodies, gender non-conforming bodies—indeed any body that does not conform—without placing them within a hierarchy of value. White supremacy is the opposite of empathy.”
― Carefree Black Girls Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

“To love someone is to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“Black women are almost always justified in their anger.”
― Carefree Black Girls Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

“The thing that makes men manly is that they force everyone to be witness to their vengeance. I want no part in this.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body