We Want Our Bodies Back Quotes

“My body was never an issue for me until I realized other people were looking at it.”
― Jessica Care Moore, We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems

“Bodies mistaken for women when they are still girls.”
― Jessica Care Moore, We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems

“How dare you be that unapologetically black. Girl.”
― Jessica Care Moore, We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems

“This was not a breakdance beat down in a Brooklyn alley.

This is figure skating.

Go figure.”
― Jessica Care Moore, We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems

“I was a refined black girl magic.

I was gold, already. Ask my mother.”
― Jessica Care Moore, We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems

“I pray
on my great GrandFather’s feathers

—the ones you don’t respect—
That you never dare call me

Mixed

when i have been a nigger anytime
you felt like it.

I’m from an army of glowing yellow/black princesses
some of us indigenous. we know.

even if the full-blood family don’t claim
us.

We all one caste system away from
spiritual death.”
― Jessica Care Moore, We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems

“You are so well read to be so brown.”
― Jessica Care Moore, We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems