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“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“There is no glory in a grind that literally grinds you down to dust.”
― Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

“What I know now is that when we derive our worth from the relationships in our lives—the intimate ones, the social circles we belong to, the companies we work for—we give away our power and become dependent upon external validation. When that is taken away, our sense of value, and identity, goes with it.”
― Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

“Abolition is about abolishing the conditions under which prison became the solution to problems, rather than abolishing the buildings we call prisons.”
― Ruth Wilson Gilmore