Sandy Chi Kim

“Revolutions do not happen only in grand moments in public view but also in small pockets of people coming together to inhabit a new way of being. We birth the beloved community by becoming the beloved community.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

“Revolutionary love” is the choice to enter into wonder and labor for others, for our opponents, and for ourselves in order to transform the world around us. It is not a formal code or prescription but an orientation to life that is personal and political and rooted in joy. Loving only ourselves is escapism; loving only our opponents is self-loathing; loving only others is ineffective. All three practices together make love revolutionary, and revolutionary love can only be practiced in community.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

“How can we presume to grieve people we never knew, people who don’t look like us or share the same history with us? Here is the answer: Grieve with those who loved them. Grieve with the living. That is the revolutionary act.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

“ancestral solidarity.” People of color survived oppression throughout our history through acts of solidarity. Shallow solidarity was based on the logic of exchange—You show up for me, and I will show up for you. But deep solidarity was rooted in recognition—I show up for you, because I see you as part of me. Your liberation is bound up in my own.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love