“I have learned through writing about my interests and myself, that anyone who chooses to ignore any part of you, or hates any part of you, can never really know you.”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“My most salient marked identities are that I’m African, Black, Catholic, and a woman...this tends to complicate people’s perception of me; it makes relating to all parts of me, difficult, for them...many people don’t seem to know what to do when complexity of self is embraced rather than denied. And…”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“I think it is because we, as women, have been devalued artistically to an indecent state, to the point where the film industry stopped making an effort to find out what female audiences wanted to see and what stories we wanted to tell.”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.com
“It wasn’t built to be a viral campaign or a hashtag that is here today and forgotten tomorrow. It was a catchphrase to be used from survivor to survivor to let folks know that they were not alone and that a movement for radical healing was happening and possible.”— Tarana Burke, ebony.com
“As with most good things, a Black woman named Tarana Burke was the original creator of the #MeToo awareness movement, but you would never know that from whom TIME chose to put on its cover instead.”— Hari Ziyad, afropunk.com
“Sometimes the problem is that invisible girls are too visible, too powerful, too fierce. The world likes to box them in to contain them.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.”— Gloria E. Anzaldúa, hamtramckfreeschool.files.wordpress.com