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#1

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
― Cornel West

tags: justice, love, society, wisdom

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#2

“Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.”
― Trinh T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

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#3

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. 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!”
― Audre Lorde

tags: dying, life, living, love, loving, motivation, motivational-quote, work, working, writing

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#4

“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose
the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution,
but more usually
we must do battle where we are standing.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

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#5

“Without community, there is no liberation.”
― Audre Lorde

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#6

“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
― Angela Davis

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#7

“It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

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#8

“As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”
― bell hooks, Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

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#9

“Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth.”
― bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love

tags: bell-hooks, love

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#10

“..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.”
― bell hooks, Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

tags: appropriation

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#11

“you and I are close, we intertwine; you may stand on the other side of the hill once in awhile, but you may also be me while remaining what you are and what I am not.”
― Trinh T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

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#12

“What tethers me to my parents is the unspoken dialogue we share about how much of my character is built on the connection I feel to the world they were raised in but that I've only experienced through photos, visits, food. It's not mine and yet, I get it. First-generation kids, I've always thought, are the personification of déjà vu.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

tags: assimilation, children, culture, diaspora, family, first-generation, identity, immigrants, immigration, parents

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#13

“I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Monique Truong, The Book of Salt

tags: asian-american, vietnamese, writing

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#14

“Burial is just another recipe”
― C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

tags: asian-american, death-and-dying, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, sibling-rivalry, western

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#15

“As a child of immigrant parents, as a woman of color in a white society and as a woman in a patriarchal society, what is personal to me IS political.”
― Mitsuye Yamada

tags: asian-american, feminism, immigrant-experience, immigrants, intersectional-feminism, patriarchal-society, patriarchy, political, women

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#16

“Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.”
― Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships

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#17

“This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not. This is born, because that is born. This dies, because that dies.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Old Path White Clouds: The Life Story of the Buddha

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