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“‘the mute sadness settles in
like dust, for the long, long haul. But if I do not get up and sing,
If I do not get up and dance again, the savages will win’

After you have time to rest, I hope that you will get up and sing and also dance. We will be here, right by your side, singing and dancing too. The savages will not win....“

“How do we contend with Wilderson’s assertion that “white people are not simply “protected” by the police. They are-in there very corporeality-the police?” What does all this mean when we think about hyper-militarized police forced that weaponize whits supremacy against black bodies and the spect of Blackness among others? How does it feel to be the prototypical target?”

“Prison isn’t feminist, because it recreates the same sexual violence and the same fear, the same kinds of oppression. It is the pin on the head of the racist and sexist system that we live in.”

“Let us be elegant or die.”