“Your daughter’s face is a small riot, her hands are a civil war, a refugee camp behind each ear.”— Warsan Shire, amazon.com
“I hear them say go home, I hear them say fucking immigrants, fucking refugees. Are they really this arrogant? Do they not know that stability is like a lover with a sweet mouth upon your body one second; the next you are a tremor lying on the floor covered in rubble and old currency waiting for its…”— Warsan Sire, amazon.com
“When Warsan Shire writes, she does precisely that; she opens a wound and as an emotional cartographer, maps the terrain of her trauma and sutures the wound through her poetry. Fearless and vulnerable, she pulls back layers to expose not only the pain, but the healing as well.”— Kameelah Janan Rasheed, wellandoftenpress.com
“Because in spite of what the mainstream publishing industry wants us to believe, white people’s experiences aren’t universal – they’re actually informed by privileges that people of color don’t have.”— Ashley Truong, everydayfeminism.com
“Writers of color are talented, fierce, and have important things to say – and it’s about time we started making room for their voices.”— Ashley Truong, everydayfeminism.com
“The thing is, if it’s going to change, white people need to be part of the effort. The reality is that publishing isn’t a business where you make it based solely on talent. If that were the case, then more writers of color would be famous and successful.”— Ashley Truong, everydayfeminism.com
“From Marlon James to Mira Jacob, authors worldwide have been speaking out about the dangerous effects of the publishing industry's lack of diversity. There's a twisted and pervasive notion out there that a) only white audiences buy books and b) that white audiences only want to read white voices. No…”— Melissa Ragsdale, bustle.com
“As an avid consumer of books and especially fiction, over the years I’ve developed a special shelf of particularly beautiful and inspiring works by women of color that help me not only walk around in another woman’s experiences, but also situate my own culturally and ethnically fluid self within a c…”— Sezin Koehler, wearyourvoicemag.com
“I think representation is exceedingly important. I think women of colour in the writing world are an absolute need.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“I think little girls of colour need as much representation as they can get, and the more women of colour that exist not just in literature but in the arts world in general, the more chance they have of being represented authentically. I use my voice to give words to the silent. I shout because I HAD…”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“The biggest gift for any writer in the world, is to be read, and for the words they have written to help and move people. To be able to be part of a thing so much greater than myself is humbling and I am nothing but grateful that so many wonderful people have read and found healing in my words.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“i knew read sonia sancher. nikki giovanni. audre lorde. before i ever even heard the name charles bukowski. finally, a proper education.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“my english is broken. on purpose. you have to try harder to understand me. breaking this language you so love is my pleasure. in your arrogance you presume that i want your skinny language. that my mouth is building a room for it in the back of my throat. it is not. --i have seven different words fo…”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com