Monique

“This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally as neutral arbiters of injury rather than as themselves invested with the power to injure. Thus, the effort to "outlaw" social injury powerfully legitimizes law and the state as appropriate protectors against injury and casts injured individuals as needing such protection by such protectors.”
― Wendy Brown, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity

“The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”
― Imam Al-Ghazali

“Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.”
― Audre Lorde

“You can't change anything from the outside in. Standing apart, looking down, talking the overview, you see pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have to be in it, weaving it. You have to be part of the weaving.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Four Ways to Forgiveness