Tricia Maina

“I know people not from here probably don’t understand our feeling for these hills. Our love for land not spectacular. Our mountains are not like Western ones, those jagged awesome ones, your eyes always pulled to their tops. But that is the difference, I decided. In the West, the mountains are mostly horizon. We live in our mountains. It’s not just the tops, but the sides that hold us.”
― Ann Pancake, Strange as This Weather Has Been: A Novel

“Is heaven also made in Taiwan? And does Jesus really know how to speak Samoan?”
― Sia Figiel, The Girl in the Moon Circle

“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you’re well.”
― Toni Cade Bambara , The Salt Eaters

“This is how whiteness reasserts itself: through a white feminist movement that aligns itself with diversity and inclusion to get white women through the door but then slams it shut in brown and black women’s faces.”
― Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color