Carefree Black Girls Quotes

“This is hard to always remember, but it is true: being genuinely kind to yourself means learning to not internalize how people who don’t know you and/or don’t care for you feel about you. A concept.”
― Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls

“Being seen is not a guarantee of being understood. And to be seen and misunderstood is perhaps the greatest plight of the Black woman”
― Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls

“In other words, representation alone will not save us, no matter how much we want it to, because most representation that exists now is designed to placate instead of liberate.”
― Carefree Black Girls Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

“Black women are almost always justified in their anger.”
― Carefree Black Girls Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

“The goal of white supremacy is to kill your sense of imagination, too. White supremacy cannot make sense of Black bodies, fat bodies, disabled bodies, dark-skinned bodies, trans bodies, gender non-conforming bodies—indeed any body that does not conform—without placing them within a hierarchy of value. White supremacy is the opposite of empathy.”
― Carefree Black Girls Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

“bell hooks wrote that “To truly be free, we must choose beyond simply surviving adversity, we must dare to create lives of sustained optimal well-being and joy.”
― Carefree Black Girls Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

“But ultimately, and most importantly, in talking about where we’re fractured, we must also talk about how we’re whole.”
― Carefree Black Girls Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

“White supremacy says empathy, care, tenderness, joy, pleasure, opportunity, freedom, should only be available to a finite group of people. White supremacy says that empathy should be totally incumbent on the way you look, and the way you look, always, should be beautiful.”
― Carefree Black Girls Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

“I want the way I exist in this body (the way you, reader, exist in your body), to be more than an act of defiance.”
― Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls