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“Hope is a discipline.” —Mariame Kaba

p. 54 in We Do This ‘Til We Free Us

“It’s hard to fake who I am when I’m doing something daily”
—Glo Atanmo

@4:56 in video | context: why YT is one of her preferred creative platforms; she can be her ‘whole self’.

"We who are Black are at an extraordinary point of choice within our lives. To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it.  Militancy no longer means guns at high noon, if it ever did. It means actively working for change, sometimes in the absence of any surety that change is coming. It means doing the unromantic and tedious work necessary to forge meaningful coalitions, and it means recognizing which coalitions are possible and which coalitions are not. It means knowing that coalition, like unity, means the coming together of whole, self-actualized human beings, focused and believing, not fragmented automatons marching to a prescribed step. It means fighting despair." ​ ​

—Audre Lorde, Feb 1982

how to remember the things you read with annotation

Change will be shaped, with or without my conscious intent or involvement. Inaction shapes change, too.

from p. 24 - 25 in Parable of the Sower (1993) by Octavia E. Butler