Sammy Vee

“Self-enrichment is that act of creating a thousand micro wins, so you can have one macro win.”
― Lisa Nichols, Abundance Now: Amplify Your Life & Achieve Prosperity Today

“The United States was founded on the principle that all people are created equal. Yet the nation began with the attempted genocide of Indigenous people and the theft of their land. American wealth was built on the labor of kidnapped and enslaved Africans and their descendants. Women were denied the right to vote until 1920, and black women were denied access to that right until 1964. The term identity politics refers to the focus on the barriers specific groups face in their struggle for equality. We have yet to achieve our founding principle, but any gains we have made thus far have come through identity politics.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“When they fail to kill your genius, they try to assassinate your character.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both women and people of color and we are always seen and treated as such.”
― Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color