ALTERITY IS THE FUNDAMENTAL CATEGORY OF HUMAN THOUGHT
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, © 1949 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, © 2009 by the translators. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC.

ANGER IS BETTER. THERE IS A SENSE OF BEING IN ANGER. A REALITY AND PRESENCE. AN AWARENESS OF WORTH. IT IS A LOVELY SURGING
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, © 1970 by the author. Used with permission of ICM Partners.

BUT NO ONE TOLD HER THAT ALL WOMEN SMILED
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, © 1949 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, © 2009 by the translators. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC.

THE CAUSE OF WAR IS PREPARATION FOR WAR
Darkwater by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1920.

COHERENCE IS ALWAYS PROVISIONAL
“Sex in Public” by Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, © 1998 by the University of Chicago Press, from Critical Inquiry, Winter 1998. Used with permission of the authors.

THE DOSSIER IS INDEED OVERWHELMING
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire, © 1955 by Éditions Présence Africaine. English translation by Joan Pinkham, © 1972 by Monthly Review Press. Used with permission of the publisher.

THE FUTURE IS ONLY AN ABSTRACTION FOR US
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, © 1949 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, © 2009 by the translators. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC.

I DO NOT WANT TO SING THE PAST
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, © 1952 by Éditions du Seuil. English translation by Richard Philcox, © 2008 by the translator. Used with permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

‘I’ IS ONLY A CONVENIENT TERM FOR SOMEBODY WHO HAS NO REAL BEING
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, © 1929 by the author. Used with permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade Publishing.

I SHALL BE EMPLOYED ABOUT THINGS NOT WORDS
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792.

IDENTITY IS MEMORY
Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog, © 1998 by the author. Used with permission of Penguin Random House South Africa.

IF I CANNOT INSPIRE LOVE I WILL CAUSE FEAR
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818.

NEVER TAKE THE SIDE OF THE WORLD
“Dislocation” from The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers by Fouad Laroui, © 2012 by Éditions Julliard. English translation by Emma Ramadan, © 2016 by the translator. Used with permission of Deep Vellum Publishing.

NO IT IS NOT THE TRUE STORY
Stesichoros, fragment 192 PMG as cited by Plato, Phaedrus 243a, from Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 1998 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved.

ONE BECOMES SELFLESS IN LOVE BECAUSE ONE DESIRES THE ADVANTAGE OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING
The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche, English translation by Walter Kaufmann, © 1967 by Random House, Inc. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC.

POSSIBILITY IS NEITHER FOREVER NOR INSTANT
“Poetry Is Not a Luxury” from Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, © 1984 by the author. Used with permission of the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency.

REALITY IS NOT GUARANTEED
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, © 1958 by the University of Chicago Press. Used with permission of the publisher.

SUDDENLY INCOHERENCE FEELS VIOLENT
Citizen by Claudia Rankine, © 2014 by the author. Used with permission of Graywolf Press.

THERE BREATHES A HOPE – A FAITH IN THE ULTIMATE JUSTICE OF THINGS
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

TOUCH HAS ITS ECSTASIES
The World I Live In by Helen Keller, 1908.

THE TRUTH IS MY SUBJECT
Phaedrus by Plato, English translation by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, © 1995 by the translators. Used with permission of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

AN UNSETTLED FEELING KEEPS THE BODY FRONT AND CENTER
Citizen by Claudia Rankine, © 2014 by the author. Used with permission of Graywolf Press.

WE STILL HAVE NOT CUT OFF THE HEAD OF THE KING
The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, by Michel Foucault, originally published in French as La Volonté du Savoir, © 1976 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Robert Hurley, © 1978 by Random House, Inc. Used by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the publishers.

WHAT IS THERE IN COMMON BETWEEN YOU AND US? EVERYTHING
“The Declaration of the Rights of Woman” by Olympe de Gouges, English translation by Darline Gay Levy, Harriet Branson Applewhite, and Mary Durham Johnson, © 1979 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, from Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789–1795. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press.

WITH NO MIND – SUDDENLY – I UNDERSTOOD
Love Is My Savior: The Arabic Poems of Rumi, English translation by Nesreen Akhtarkhavari and Anthony A. Lee, © 2016 by the translators. Used with permission of the Michigan State University Press.

THE WORLD IS NOT A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE IN
Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com.

YOU ARE STILL FIGURING OUT WHETHER YOU HAVE SURVIVED IT
Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog, © 1998 by the author. Used with permission of Penguin Random House South Africa.

YOU BE MY ALLY
Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved.

YOU SIT AMONG THE RUINS AND LAMENT THE FALL
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818.