Sandy Chi Kim

“to master the world as it is, and labor for what it ought to be.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

“Loving ourselves is frontline social justice work. Audre Lorde said: “Caring for myself is not an act of self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” And bell hooks wrote, “I have seen that we cannot fully create effective movements for social change if individuals struggling for that change are not also self-actualized or working towards that end.” Without loving ourselves, our other efforts to love fail. When asked why we should practice radical care for ourselves, Angela Davis responded: “Longevity.” “As we struggle, we are attempting to presage the world to come,” she said. “If we don’t start practicing collective self-care now, there is no way to imagine, much less reach, a time of freedom.” That means finding ways to breathe life into the world we want, here and now.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

“This is a state of joyfulness inside the struggle—an energy that keeps us in motion, a breathing that keeps us laboring, even inside the pain of labor.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

“The way we make change is just as important as the change we make.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love