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“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
3-2-1: On Choosing Your Pain, Self-Acceptance, and Seizing Opportunities | James Clear
Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
And I remind myself all the time now that if I were to have been born mute, or had maintained an oath of silence my whole life long for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Audre Lorde tells us, “We have been raised to fear … our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for … many facets of our own oppression.”
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
And Star Wars (the force); William Gibson (Idoru); China Mieville (dream shit); Nalo Hopkinson (sensual breathtaking magic); the Zapatistas (many worlds exist); the Black Panthers (meet the biological needs of a community as a mode of organizing); Black feminist artists Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Lucille Clifton, and Toni Cade Bambara
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Audre Lorde said, “Revolution is not a one-time event.” Antiracism work is not a twenty-eight-day journey. It is a lifelong practice. This book presents a place to begin and to continue the work. But it requires your lifelong commitment to antioppression. This is not like reading a personal growth book, attending a spiritual retreat, or going to a
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