29 Quotes About Poc

Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.

Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.

I feel ashamed that black people are both the agents and the victims of this chaos, and I don't want to be thought of like that. But I'm also ashamed of myself for thinking I'm somehow better. The shame I feel in my guts, pulsing, spiraling; but also everything feels very far away. I'm black, but my black is different from that of those rioters on TV.

I am treacherous with old magicand the noon’s new fury with all your wide futurespromisedI amwomanand not white.

My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men.

I'm not white, no, but I'm just close enough that I could be, and just far enough that you know I'm not. I can check off a diversity box for you and I don't make you nervous - at least not on the surface. I'm the whole package!

One way or another, white people always found a way to fuck a brown woman over.

If you only write what you know, you'll never know anything else. If you only write what you see you'll never see anything else. In order to experience new things you must always step outside of your comfort zone, or your live you life never knowing anything new

We have to walk around being perfect all the time just to be seen as human. Don't you ever get tired of being a symbol? Don't you ever just want to be human?