Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational. - Mikki Kendall

My grandmother remains—despite her futile efforts to make me more ladylike—one of the most feminist women I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing, and yet she would never have carried that label. Because so much of what feminists had to say of her time was laden with racist and classist assumptions about women like her, she focused on what she could control and was openly disdainful of a lot of feminist rhetoric. But she lived her feminism, and her priorities were in line with womanist views on individual and community health.

There is no shame in asking for help; it takes strength to admit you need it.

No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.