Erik Ogan

“We also need to understand that white supremacy is at the heart of the problem—not just a racially associated economic inequality.”
― Becky Bond, Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything

“Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Those are personal acts of solidarity, but they do not excuse us from the need to anchor our political analysis in a critique of structural racism.”
― Becky Bond, Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything