Abhimat

“Nelson Mandela once said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, “I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“It turns out that there is no “right” or “wrong” way to grow into a hundred-year-old tree: there are only ways that work and ways that do not.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“I am constantly reminding myself that the goal of protest is progress, not simply more protest. Protest, though not the solution, is a precursor to the solution. It creates space that would otherwise not exist, and forces conversations and topics that have been long ignored into the public sphere. It illuminates what our country would rather forget. Protest remains necessary in a country with such ingrained systemic inequity and in which the traditional mechanisms of power have not often benefited marginalized communities without direct pressure.”
― DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

“We don’t give young people enough credit for being able to make sense of the world around them, to take things in and let things out, to be shaped and to shape the world around them.”
― DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope