Decolonial Daughter Quotes

“Some people tout that your liberation is contingent upon your understanding of Hegel. I say our liberation is contingent upon our understanding of self and there is no better teacher than our ancestors. Rather than looking into the pages of books written by our conquerors, I have been seeking out the wisdom of those who have too often been silenced.”
― Lesley-Ann Brown, Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son

“I was called "fas'" my entire life. "She too fas'!" is a refrain, pregnant with disdain, that shoots out of the mouths of women instead of loving girls, instead of nurturing us, teaching us. These refrains become a noose that is thrown at the first sign of a girl's intellect, that tightens itself around her neck the older she grows. If she learns not to silence herself the women around her will. This is what being complicit in the patriarchy demands.”
― Lesley-Ann Brown, Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son