Sandy Chi Kim

“Love is not a rush of feeling: Love is sweet labor.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

“My friend Professor Melissa Harris-Perry once told me that after Obama’s election, she held up a picture of President Lyndon Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to her class. “Which one is Obama?” she asked her students. The students shouted, “King! King!” “No,” she said. “Obama is President Johnson. Obama is constrained by the office of the presidency. President Johnson could not deliver civil rights victories without Dr. King. The president needs a King. The president needs Kings, plural. We must be his Kings.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

“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

“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