“If we feel deeply, and we encourage ourselves and others to feel deeply, we will find the germ of our answers to bring about change…” – Audre Lorde, in conversation with Claudia Tate

“There have always been those who use despair and desperation as weapons.” – N.K. Jemisin, ‘The Stone Sky’

“I love basketball” – Metta World Peace, at the free throw line

“The way of the world isn’t the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak…” – N.K. Jemisin, ‘The Obelisk Gate’

“The minute you walk on the beach it is a very different feeling from any beach I’ve ever been on,” – GiGi Lucas, founder of SurfearNegra

“Survival doesn’t mean rightness.” – N.K. Jemisin, ‘The Fifth Season’

“I love to write love poems. I love loving.” – Audre Lorde, interviewed by Claudia Tate

“Wear some socks, I say, looking down at my own bare ankles.” – Diane Seuss, “I’m full of sadness”

“Colonizers write about flowers. / I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks / seconds before becoming daisies.” – Noor Hindi, “Fuck Your Lecture On Craft, My People Are Dying”

“She had what it took…the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.” – Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’