Catapult

“They say perhaps we cry when language fails, when words can no longer adequately convey our hurt.”
― Heather Christle, The Crying Book

“White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both women and people of color and we are always seen and treated as such.”
― Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

“You may not like what you see, but you will see me, motherfucker. My very being is an act of defiance.”
― Sophia Chang, The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir

“She wanted someone ... who worked with his hands and not with words. Want. She wanted. She needed. The words resounded in her head as she went out the door to the street. And maybe it was the cool wind that hit her in the face, or the moon that still hung in the sky, full and yellow, or the fact that she was still drunk and was going back to her bed alone at one thirty in the morning, but the words hurt her. She felt again, for the second time that night, humiliated and sick of herself.”
― Paulina Flores, Humiliation