Dawn Demps

“The poem “Brother” by Pat Parker addresses the violence Black women face in their own communities while trying to address systemic oppression: Brother I don’t want to hear about how my real enemy is the system. i’m no genius, but i do know that system you hit me with is called a fist.”
― Moya Bailey, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance

“Because of the continuous battle against racial erasure that Black women and Black men share, some Black women still refuse to recognize that we are also oppressed as women, and that sexual hostility against Black women is practiced not only by the white racist society, but implemented within our Black communities as well. It is a disease striking the heart of Black nationhood, and silence will not make it disappear.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence. —James Baldwin”
― Henry A. Giroux, The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine

“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”
― Albert Einstein