Cherish Farrah Quotes

“They didn’t think you could be strong without struggle, and they kept you weak so you wouldn’t see that the world they made for you only exists here.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, Cherish Farrah

“The carpet is a thin veil meant to make the harsh metal look like something soft and welcoming, rather than the monstrosity it would be in its natural state. It takes so little to trick the eyes, but I am lying on the thin deception, and the cold, unmalleable frame is bleeding into me until I start to shiver.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, Cherish Farrah

“Black Americans, you don’t realize how much you’ve benefited from all the pain and suffering. Being forced to be resilient and authentic in ways white Americans can never be. You don’t wonder what you’d lose if these systems were dismantled completely.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, Cherish Farrah

“I know it can be hard to see people’s struggles close up, baby,” Brianne continues. “It can unsettle us, make us want to pull back or look away. But that’s the thing we shouldn’t ever do, sweetheart. No matter how hard it is to understand, we owe it to the people we love to witness those things we can’t experience with them.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, Cherish Farrah

“Color blindness requires the kind of delusional naïveté that I have only ever believed in Cherish. For one thing, you can’t be the intended beneficiary of color’s power and refuse to see it; that’s just refusing accountability. Only someone susceptible to its harm, who honestly and impressively never develops an awareness of that fact, could claim it.”
― Bethany C. Morrow, Cherish Farrah