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#1

“Those of us who attempt to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening our own self-understanding, freedom, integrity, and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others. We will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of our own obsessions, our aggressivity, our ego-centered ambitions, our delusions about ends and means.”
― Thomas Merton

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#2

“All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk”
― Zora Neale Hurston

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#3

“as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them”
― Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

tags: black-feminism, praxis

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#4

“Unless we develop some cohesive vision of that world in which we hope these children will participate, and some sense of our own responsibilities in the shaping of that world, we will only raise new performers in the master’s sorry drama.”
― Audre Lorde

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#5

“Prison abolition means … rejecting the idea that harm is criminal, and, instead, assuming that everyone causes harm — some more than others, when not given what they need to effectively prevent their own harm.”
― Camonghne Felix

tags: abolition

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#6

“No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings

tags: inspirational-life

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#7

“I want to do good work. I want to be involved in other people's doing good work.”
― Toni Morrison

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#8

“Big talk ain’t changin’ whut you doin’. You can’t clean yo’ self wid yo’ tongue lak uh cat.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's Gourd Vine

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#9

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy

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#10

“Lot’s wife lookee back and turn to a pillar of salt and she be dere till Judgment Day. Poor Cudjo, I no lookee back. I pressee forward.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

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#11

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

tags: past, time

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#12

“come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.”
― Lucille Clifton

tags: strength, struggle

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#13

“Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

tags: lgbtq, love, women

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#14

“All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.”
― bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism

tags: bigotry

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#15

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

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#16

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

tags: writing

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#17

“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you’re well.”
― Toni Cade Bambara , The Salt Eaters

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#18

“When you see people call themselves revolutionary always talking about destroying, destroying, destroying but never talking about building or creating, they’re not revolutionary. They do not understand the first thing about revolution. It’s creating.”
― Kwame Ture

tags: abolition, revolution

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#19

“Care is the antidote to violence.”
― Saidiya Hartman

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#20

“Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”
― Toni Morrison

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#21

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

tags: pain, voice

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#22

“I’m not against police brutality, I’m against the police.”
― Frank B. Wilderson III

tags: abolition, police, police-brutality, policing

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#23

“The possessive investment in whiteness can’t be rectified by learning “how to be more antiracist.” It requires a radical divestment in the project of whiteness and a redistribution of wealth and resources. It requires abolition, the abolition of the carceral world, the abolition of capitalism. What is required is a remaking of the social order, and nothing short of that is going to make a difference.”
― Saidiya Hartman

tags: abolition, antiracism, capitalism, whiteness

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#24

“As educators, as scholars — really, as readers — contested engagement is an important part of our work. We must engage with each other, in part, where we each are, and push each other to reach beyond and differently, to unlearn so that we might learn differently.”
― Leigh Patel

tags: community, contested-engagement, engagement, listening, mutuality, readers, reading

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#25

“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”
― Angela Y. Davis

tags: racism

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#26

“Without new visions, we don’t know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers and tactics, but a process that can and must transform us”
― Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

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#27

“Abolition is about abolishing the conditions under which prison became the solution to problems, rather than abolishing the buildings we call prisons.”
― Ruth Wilson Gilmore

tags: abolition

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#28

“Revolution is not a one time event.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: revolution

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#29

“Our goal is not ending violence. It is liberation.”
― Beth Richie

tags: liberation

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#30

“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

tags: cancer, differences, feminism, illness, silence, speaking-out, truth, women, words

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