Annie Danko

“Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated.”
― Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

“There’s nothing feminist about having so many resources at your fingertips and choosing to be ignorant. Nothing empowering or enlightening in deciding that intent trumps impact. Especially when the consequences aren’t going to be experienced by you, but will instead be experienced by someone from a marginalized community.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
― John Cage

“America loves the myth of a meritocracy more than anything else, because it lets us ignore the reality of the impact of bigotry.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot