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“Blood is not thicker than freedom and it’s not thicker than safety. Sometimes blood is just that, blood. I know my mother loves me; I’m her son. But, honestly, I don’t think my mother cares about what that really means.”

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paintings by Anna Roberts

“I mean I think there’s a huge benefit in being a participant-observer. There are people who are just observers and don’t engage with others. There are people that just engage and don’t think about what’s happening. And to learn to go back and forth between — or simultaneously be learning, observing, but at the same time be fully present — was a marvelous thing to learn. And it’s a marvelous way to live, actually.“ - Mary Catherine Bateson

“Once I got home, I didn’t start reading. I pretended that I didn’t have it, only so that later I could feel the shock of having it.“ - Clarice Lispector

“During my lifetime few Americans have tended their dead, just as few have tended their dying, and we had to grope our way, following clues from other times or other cultures.“ - Mary Catherine Bateson

“Being a patient, rather than a participant in one’s healing process, separates suffering people from their community and alienates them from an inner sense of self.”

“I really can't go through anything serious ever again by myself.”

“Trust what is leaving. What is being shaken up. What is being set free. What paths are being cleared within you. Setting up for success is as important as welcoming it in once it gets here.”

An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire by Gwendolyn Brooks

LaBohem Brown In a package of minutes there is this We. How beautiful. Merry foreigners in our morning, we laugh, we touch each other, are responsible props and posts. A physical light is in the room. Because the world is at the window we cannot wonder very long. You rise. Although genial, you are in yourself again. I observe your direct and respectable stride. You are direct and self-accepting as a lion in Afrikan velvet. You are level, lean, remote. There is a moment in Camaraderie when interruption is not to be understood. I cannot bear an interruption. This is the shining joy; the time of not-to-end. On the street we smile. We go in different directions down the imperturbable street.

#gwendolyn brooks

"One day in August, 1970, when both Jane and Henry were home, FBI agents came to the brownstone to question Jane as to her knowledge of the whereabouts of Angela Davis, the Black Panther, academic, and activist who was on the run after a fatal shooting and hostage incident during the trial of a Panther in Marin County. The guns used in the takeover of the courtroom had been registered to Davis, though she wasn't even in the courtroom at the time. Jane honestly didn't know where Davis was and she told the FBI agents this. But after they left, Henry Fonda was extremely upset. He told his daughter that she needed to move out of his house. She ended up renting her own apartment and a few weeks later she offered her new place up as the site for a press conference held by Panther, Huey Newton. Jane served drinks to the reporters and said nothing."

#jane fonda #jean seberg #black panthers #you must remember this

“To listen to a political leader at this moment in history is like sitting through a sermon by a priest who has lost his faith but is desperately trying not to admit it, even to himself.”

#paul kingsnorth #leopold kohr

“He later said that something about the look on her face—“eyes wide open, mouth wide open. . . She had that anger in her face that she was going to hit someone with that hammer”—caused him to fear for his safety. Fran Garrett later questioned the officer’s response: “What did the police see when they pried open that door? A Black woman? A lesbian? He said it was just a look on her face. What look would you have on your face if the police broke into your house? Could that have been the look of fear? I would have been in fear for my life too, especially if I already felt like they were going to kill me.” Once again, perceptions of Black women as “deranged subjects” prone to violence colored an officer’s response to a Black woman standing with a hammer, with deadly results.”

#sayhername #say her name #andrea j. ritchie #marlene pinnock #deborah danner #rosie banks #kayla moore #michelle cusseaux #jazmyne ha eng #ok jin jun #loreal tsingine #lisa hayes #lashonn white #invisible no more

RIP Jeanne Moreau.

“It was seeing that, their lives had to be part of the soup of the organizing. Because they were living complex and difficult lives. So it wasn’t that we could just separate out and have a wall between what we were organizing for and then their living and lived experiences. Those lived experiences had to be part of the soup of the organizing and I wasn’t trained in that way.” - Mariame Kaba

#mariame kaba

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