Author: Simone A. James Alexander

Cites

• Audre Lorde (1)
  • IN: African Diasporic Women's Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship (1967) American Literature, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: They're treating my resistance to their diagnosis as a personal affront. But it's my body and my life and the goddess knows i'm paying enough for all this, I ought to have a say. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes - everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor!
    FROM: A Burst of Light, (1988), Book, US
• Edwidge Danticat (1)
  • IN: African Diasporic Women's Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship (1967) American Literature, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I am even more certain that to create dangeroudly is also to create fearlessly, boldy embracing the public and private terrors that would silence us, then bravely moving forward even when it feels as though we are chasing or being chased by ghosts.
    FROM: Create Dangerously, (2010), Book, Haiti