Kaydee Barker

“the only thing wrong with Black people is that we think something is wrong with Black people.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

“Racist ideas love believers, not thinkers.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.” There’s a nice word: ramifications. It’s especially good in this context because, while the literal definition is “a structure formed of branches,” from the Latin ramus, of course the looser definition is “implications.” Darwin’s tree certainly had implications.”
― David Quammen, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

“We hold nothing back – not our effort, not any resources we might have, not time itself. We do not even hold our futures to ourselves. If we limit our aspirations to short-term aims and allow our aspirations to end when we attain those limited results, we will not create the momentum needed to maintain our enthusiasm over the long haul, until that time when we have developed our qualities of mind and heart to their fullest capacity. – 17th Karmapa”
― Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society