Dana

“When folks come to a workshop, they are often profoundly anxious. They have invested their time getting educated, practicing, and challenging themselves to be excellent at a few things. They are used to being an expert and have forgotten how to be a beginner!”
― Shannon Downey, Let's Move the Needle: An Activism Handbook for Artists, Crafters, Creatives, and Makers; Build Community and Make Change!

“In each of them we find a manual on how to survive and persist in a country that stacks all the odds against you. We also see that the world is changeable and waiting on our instruction (198)”
― Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

“the political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of that nation.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“The principles were Blindness, Loneliness, and Terror, the first principle necessarily and actively cultivated in order to deny the two others. I”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time