Piper

“Your end is a dead blue wren.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“she's used to clients and new colleagues looking past her to the person they are clearly expecting to meet
she will stride up to the client, shake his hand firmly (yet femininely), while looking him warmly (yet confidently) in the eye and smiling innocently, and delivering her name unto him with perfectly clipped Received Pronunciation, showing off her pretty (thank-god-they're-not-too-thick) lips coated in a discreet shade of pink, baring her perfect teeth as he adjusts to the collision between reality and expectation, and tries not to show it while she assumes control of the situation and the conversation”
― Bernadine Evaristo

“why should he carry the burden of representation when it will only hold him back?
white people are only required to represent themselves, not an entire race”
― Bernadine evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“The natural-hair hierarchy means it is easier for those with 'good' hair to go 'natural', and to then be praised as 'natural queens'. Meanwhile, women with the hair texture that is most stigmatised might be more likely to use wigs and weave, and then face discrimination.”
― Emma Dabiri, Dont Touch My Hair